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By adamg - 3/15/24 - 9:38 am

The MBTA reports ongoing delays on the Orange Line this morning due to signal problems near Community College.

By adamg - 3/9/24 - 11:03 pm

Not everything that goes wrong on the T is the T's fault, it seems. First it was the little duck and today, the T says, it had to shut the Orange Line between Forest Hills and Back Bay after an overhead Amtrak power line unspooled or snapped or something near Ruggles, causing problems for the neighboring subway line. Read more.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 3:05 pm

WCVB reports MBTA General Manager Phil Eng said today that the power cable that shorted out or blew up or something that tripped all the other power cables at North Station to shut down, taking the Blue, Green and Orange lines with them didn't belong to National Grid - it was the MBTA's own cable. Read more.

By adamg - 2/23/24 - 9:20 am

A man screaming about masks attacked a 69-year-old woman at the State Street Orange Line stop Wednesday afternoon, ripping her mask off, knocking her to the floor and trying to drag her to the tracks before a bystander intervened, Transit Police and WBZ report. Read more.

By adamg - 2/20/24 - 12:00 pm

At 11:17 a.m., the MBTA reported: "Delays of about 15 minutes while personnel complete a track repair between Haymarket and State." They have since updated the track is no longer whack.

By adamg - 2/16/24 - 9:24 pm

At 8:17 p.m., the MBTA reported delays on the Orange Line, when one of the new trains exhaled its last at Community College. At 8:41 p.m., the T reported delays on the Red Line when a train died at Park. The T did no say if that was one of the new Red Line trains, one of the old Red Line trains or one of the even older Red Line trains.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 2:58 pm
Making a video about the new faregates

John Mcboston watched as a T crew filmed an actor and commuters making a video at North Station about how to use the new faregates - just moments before all faregates everywhere on the T were set to spring free for four hours as recompense, or something, for this morning's non-service.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 12:38 pm

MBTA General Manager Phil Eng says the T's subway lines will be free between 3 and 7 p.m. to try to make up for this morning's three-line disaster, which he blamed on some sort of failure in a National Grid "feeder cable" supplying power to the T via North Station. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 7:55 am
T pain chart by Bacon Doughnut

Update: T blames National Grid feeder cable.

The MBTA reports the Orange, Green and Blue lines all died this morning due to some sort of power and signal problem. The power is back, but trains are moving like molasses (in the traditional sense, not the Boston sense). Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 5:26 pm

Transit Police report a 14-year-old-girl told officers she was sexually assaulted and threatened with a knife around 4 p.m. on Monday at Forest Hills. The next day, a teen, too young to be named because of his age, was arrested for the attack, police say.

By adamg - 1/27/24 - 11:48 pm

Shortly before 1 p.m., the MBTA announced the Orange Line was "standing by" because one of its brand-new Orange Line trains decided Chinatown was a good place to die.

By adamg - 1/26/24 - 10:17 pm

For the third day in a row, the MBTA had to halt service on the Orange Line because of something that made Boston firefighters have to get on the tracks at Massachusetts Avenue, sometime before 8:25 p.m. Firefighters were off the tracks by around 8:50 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 1:46 pm

For the second time in less than 24 hours, Mass. Ave. on the Orange Line forced an Orange Line shutdown because of something that, once again, forced firefighters to get down on the outbound tracks at the station. Firefighters arrived around 12:15 p.m., then waited for the T to shut down power so they could get onto the tracks. Whatever it was got fixed and the MBTA reported at 1:38 p.m. that service was back to what now passes for normal.

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 10:27 pm

The elevator at the Orange Line's Mass. Ave. stop stopped working around 4:25 p.m., trapping two people inside. Read more.

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 1:01 pm

At 11:40 a.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Orange Line after one of its shiny new Orange Line trains developed an embarrassing "door problem" at Tufts Medical Center.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 11:17 am

At 9:27 a.m., the MBTA reported Orange Line delays due to a prematurely deceased new Orange Line train at Forest Hills, a day after another new Orange Line train refused to leave Forest Hills.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 9:52 am

Bright and early at 6:28 a.m., the MBTA reported one of its new Springfield specials on the Orange Line refused to budge from Forest Hills. The train has since been shoved out of the way.

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 10:08 am

The MBTA today announced track work that will mean bustitution for extended periods on the Red and Green Lines next month - and a piddling two-day suspension on the southern end of the Orange Line for signal work. Read more.

By schneidz - 1/14/24 - 10:31 am
gotta' go fast

i came across this m.b.t.a. planet while playing xkcd 'escape speed':
https://xkcd.com/2765/

spoiler alert:
there are blue line, red line, orange line, green line tokens to be picked up at various boston themed locations on other planets. then you must guide your ship to kendall/m.i.t. to pick up a hyper-drive.

By adamg - 1/7/24 - 10:19 pm
Man wanted for slicing somebody at Wellington

Surveillance photos of Wellington suspect via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say sliced a man with a knife at the Wellington Orange Line stop around 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 29. Read more.

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