Green Line
Maryland man faces charge in 2004 Green Line sexual attack; initially, just his DNA was indicted
By adamg - 5/21/12 - 10:08 am
Updated with new information from the DA's office.
An economics consultant from Maryland was arraigned today on charges of indecent assault and battery for an incident on the Green Line near Kenmore Square in 2004, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Prosecutors charge Timothy Day spurted on a woman's pants and pocketbook on a crowded B trolley between Copley and Kenmore Square on June 22, 2004.
Prosecutors initially indicted an unknown individual linked to a specific DNA sequence, extracted from the remains of the material on the woman's purse, retrieved from the trash after she threw it away in disgust.
Perched on the Green Line
By adamg - 5/20/12 - 12:50 am
Zach Tucker spotted the Bird Man of the Green Line Saturday night.
Car, cab collide, close Green Line
By adamg - 5/19/12 - 9:44 pmRobinite reports the two vehicles collided pretty much on top of the Green Line at Comm. Ave. and Allston Street around 9:30 p.m. That shut the inbound tracks; arriving emergency vehicles shut the outbound tracks as well.
Ed. question: Is that intersection cursed, or what?
Some Green Line riders to get a taste of the Red Line life this weekend
By adamg - 5/3/12 - 2:12 pmThe MBTA reports it will be running buses between Blandford and Babcock streets on the B line on Saturday to allow for track work near the BU Bridge.
Carnage along the E line: Councilor wants to mount cameras on trolleys to catch motorists who don't stop for riders
By adamg - 4/26/12 - 11:23 amCity Councilor Mike Ross says riders on the E line between Brigham Circle and Heath Street shouldn't have to worry about getting flattened by crazed Massholes who ignore the "STOP" painted on the sides of open trolley doors.
Ross, who lives on Mission Hill, is seeking legislation to let the T install cameras on trolleys that share the road with motorists in that stretch to catch and ticket drivers ignoring stopped trolleys.
Under Ross's proposal (see attached), images from the cameras, along with date stamps and locations, would be forwarded to an MBTA police officer trained in traffic enforcement, who would then write out tickets.
The proposal gets a hearing before the council's Committee on Government Operations at 10 a.m. on May 29 at City Hall. If the committee and then the full council approve, the measure would then go to the state Legislature as a home-rule petition.
Man claims trolley was so crowded it made his shorts fall off
By adamg - 4/20/12 - 9:39 am
Police, however, did not buy his story any more than the woman who followed him off the train and held him until the law arrived after she got a glimpse of his junk.
Michael Galvin, 37, of Somerville, was arrested on a charge of open and gross lewdness for an incident on an outbound B trolley around 6:40 p.m. yesterday.
According to police, he exposed his penis to a woman as the trolley approached Packard's Corner:
Man tagged for graffiti in Green Line tunnel
By adamg - 4/15/12 - 12:19 pmA Mission Hill man walking out of a Green Line tunnel around 4:30 a.m. today aroused the suspicions of a passing Northeastern University police officer, who started an investigation that ended with the man under arrest for allegedly using spray paint to profess his love for hot sauce inside the tunnel.
Alex Wan, 23, was charged with malicious destruction of property and standing, walking, or riding vehicle on railroad property, according to an MBTA Transit Police report.
According to police, a Northeastern sergeant driving inbound on Huntington stopped Wan when he spotted him walking out of the Green Line portal just past Mass. Ave. Police did not buy his story that he'd gotten off at Symphony and was just using the tunnel as a shortcut home. Wan allegedly told the sergeant he "wrote only one thing" in the tunnel. The report says arriving transit officers noted white paint on his hands and then took their own walk into the tunnel:
Suspicious package at Boylston shuts Green Line at rush hour
By adamg - 4/12/12 - 5:30 pm5:45 p.m. update: Service has resumed, Boylston all clear.
Harried Green Line riders are even more harried than usual this evening with the T shutting down the line between Park and Kenmore due to what Boston Police report is a "suspicious package" at Boylston station.
Riders were being urged to take the Orange Line or even commuter rail as an alternative.
Some commuters already on the Green Line found themselves rolling backwards into the nearest stations. Others found themselves in a soaking wet chaos waiting for the 39 bus at Prudential.
Government Center T stop evacuated after escalator catches on fire
By adamg - 4/9/12 - 7:19 pmFirefighters quickly knocked down a fire in an escalator at the Government Center T stop shortly after 7 p.m., but heavy smoke forced them to evacuate everybody from the station and ask the MBTA to have Green Line trolleys bypass the stop until the smoke could be cleared.
