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Third teen charged for allegedly attacking bus driver on Dudley Street over smoking

By adamg - 4/22/11 - 1:50 pm

DonovanMBTA Transit Police today charged Brian Donovan, 18, of Dedham, in connection with a crash that left an MBTA bus in a Dudley Street storefront, a teen pinned against the wall, on April 11.

Donovan, who can be seen in a Pepsi jacket in a video of the crash aftermath, was charged with assault and battery on a public employee and wrongful interference with a common carrier.

The teen pinned to the wall, Felix Garcia, was charged a couple days after the crash for similar offenses, as was Michael Baptista (who can be seen in the video wearing a suit and tie).

Police charge the three began beating the driver after he went to the back of the bus to demand whoever was smoking cut it out, and that the bus crashed after the driver lost consciousness under the hail of fists. Garcia and Baptista, however, allege the driver attacked them and deliberately aimed his bus at Garcia after the teens got off the bus.

Innocent, etc.

Arrested bus guys insist driver used vehicle as a weapon against them

By adamg - 4/14/11 - 12:24 pm

The Globe reports on the arraignment today of two Roxbury teens for that bus crash on Dudley Street.

Michael Anthony Baptista, who said he was on his way to a job fair, was released on personal recognizance. Felix Garcia was ordered held for violating bail conditions on unrelated larceny and assult charges.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office paints a different picture, saying in a statement:

Two teens charged for Roxbury bus crash

By adamg - 4/13/11 - 8:48 pm

Channel 4 reports Michael Baptista, 19, and Felix Garcia, 18, were arrested in connection with Monday's crash on Dudley Street.

Innocent, etc.

Another MBTA bus crash sends six to hospital, in Dedham

By adamg - 4/12/11 - 5:03 pm

AlertNewEngland reports a 34E bus and a car collided outside the Stop & Shop at the Dedham Mall around 3:20 p.m. Five bus passengers and the driver of the car were taken to local hospitals with minor neck and back injuries.

The T reports the driver of the car was cited for failing to stop at a stop sign, and that the bus suffered minor damage to the right side; the auto moderate damage to the front.

'Got my head smashed into the window ... About 10 of these kids jumped me'

By adamg - 4/12/11 - 9:50 am

The MBTA has released excerpts from the radio call from the driver of the bus that crashed on Dudley Street yesterday, as well as a copy of a call from a passenger to 911:

Guy at center of MBTA bus ruckus says driver punched him, then pinned him to wall

By adamg - 4/12/11 - 7:34 am

Denies he attacked driver, Channel 5 reports.

Teens attack MBTA bus driver, causing crash on Dudley Street

By adamg - 4/11/11 - 3:53 pm

Bus crashFirefighters at the bus crash. Photo by BFD.

MBTA bus driver charged as drug dealer

By adamg - 4/8/11 - 9:53 am

King Cynthia King, 46, of Brockton, was arrested at the MBTA's Cabot bus yard yesterday afternoon on charges of possesssion of cocaine with intent to distribute, according to Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

'Temporary' Arborway bus depot becomes a little more permanent

By adamg - 4/6/11 - 6:07 pm

State officials didn't add a $200-million rehab of what was supposed to be a temporary facility to their capital budget, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports.

If you see a giant shipping box on Boston streets next week

By adamg - 3/24/11 - 11:28 am

Beanbus

Don't worry, it's probably not part of the MBTA's new anti-terrorism campaign. Instead, it's an advertising vehicle for L.L. Bean, which will be picking up the tab for riders on certain buses on the 1, 9, 47, 57, 66, CT1, CT2 and CT3 - the ones that look like examples of abandoned boxes the T has been telling us to call Transit Police about.

That gets Margaret Willison to thinking:

Hopefully next Swatch will sponsor MBTA bus lines that actually run on time.

Via BostonTweet.

Trucks behaving badly on area roads this morning

By adamg - 3/9/11 - 6:55 am

Massachusetts State Police tweet Watertown Square is a mess this morning thanks to a truck that brought down trackless-trolley wires.

The Staties add the ramp from 128 north to 95 north in Peabody is literally a mess - and shut down - thanks to a tractor trailer that overturned and spilled its load of ink cartridges, giving the road surface some new coloration. Photo.

Urban still life

By adamg - 3/5/11 - 8:25 pm

People on a bus

Police: Geezer groper arrested for incident on Roxbury bus

By adamg - 3/4/11 - 1:25 pm
Potter

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a 74-year-old Dorchester man on charges he felt up a teen on her way to school last fall - after she spotted him on another bus yesterday, wearing the same multicolored scarf he had on when he allegedly first attacked her.

Joseph Potter was charged with indecent assault and battery following his arrest shortly before 8 a.m. on a Silver Line bus out of Dudley station. Police charged him after he was identified by the high-school student he allegedly felt up on a 19 bus on her way to the O'Bryant School on Nov. 3.

T bus driver has to take breath test

By adamg - 2/26/11 - 4:39 pm

Jamaica Plain Patch reports the 39 driver passed the test but was taken off his route pending an MBTA investigation.

MBTA won't tolerate its drivers throwing coffee in the faces of alleged Massholes

By adamg - 2/20/11 - 8:29 pm

The Globe reports a bus driver in Lynn was suspended today for responding to being cut off by a pick-up truck by hurling a coffee at the driver - who then called police.

If a bus could talk

By adamg - 2/13/11 - 10:33 am

Route 66 is on the tweeties.

HONK MOTHAHONKIN' HONK

Comcast may care, but its contractors don't

By adamg - 2/4/11 - 11:24 am

Mark Renouf reports he was late to work because a Comcast contractor blocked traffic on Avon Street in Somerville with his truck:

MBTA Bus route #85. [Contractor] was outside when the bus came by, the driver asked him to move it, he said no and went inside the house he was working at. He finally moved it after coming out to his truck and the bus driver asked again. Sat there for ~15min.

The 215 bus line has two nice drivers

By adamg - 1/28/11 - 8:48 am

Yesterday, Kate Norton praised a driver on the 215 route from Quincy to Ashmont who picked up people who weren't at bus stops. Channel 25 followed up by interviewing a driver on the 215 route who picked up people who weren't at bus stops - but not the driver Norton meant.

Act of kindness along a Dorchester bus route

By adamg - 1/27/11 - 8:54 am

Kate Norton reports that a driver on the 215 bus to Ashmont was doing more than just stopping at the regular bus stops: As he saw people struggling in the snow, he'd stop the bus and ask them if they were heading to Ashmont.

He did it for people his whole route. ... I want to write a letter to the MBTA. So amazing.

'The only reason the bus that I was able to fit on stopped is because we went in the street to get her to stop and let us on'

By adamg - 1/25/11 - 11:38 am

Unhappy campers at G Street and East BroadwayUnhappy campers at G Street and East Broadway

Ed. note: Amy Ewing e-mailed this photo and the following complaint:

I am a reasonable person. I understand that there is snow, and issues that come up during snow and cold weather. But am I wrong to think that THIS IS NEW ENGLAND?!?! It does this every &$*(& year. Why is it that the MBTA cannot manage to get it together so that they don't leave tons of people on the frigid, un-shoveled, icy sidewalks of Boston in temperatures that could actually cause people hypothermia or worse?

This morning what I experienced was 1) inexcusable and 2) unacceptable. I am seriously considering paying the $400 per month to park, which means I will be driving my car the 3 miles to work because the bus cannot get me to work on time. I cannot rely on the public transportation system.

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