Orange Line
Orange Line riders north of Boston to face two years of periodic weekend, night bus service
By adamg - 5/24/12 - 10:32 amSouth End Patch reports on impending bustitution north of the city to let the MBTA build the new Assembly Square stop in peace. There's no set schedule yet for the "diversions," but the T says what will start out as sporadic shutdowns will grow more frequent as the station progresses.
I for one welcome our new T-riding alien overlords
By adamg - 5/17/12 - 5:08 pm
"Cookbooks for sale," this sign at Forest Hills probably says.
Police: Two blasts of pepper spray not enough to subdue would-be Orange Line phone thief
By adamg - 5/10/12 - 4:00 pm
MBTA Transit Police report that even after two shots of pepper spray yesterday afternoon, a Chelsea man collared for trying to steal an Orange Line rider's phones managed to flee an officer - who managed to catch up with him and finally subdue him on a commuter-rail platform with his baton.
Police say an officer on routine patrol inside Back Bay station noticed two men holding down a third just inside the fare gates to the Orange Line around 6:40 p.m. According to a police report, one told the officer the man had tried to steal his phone down on the platform but that he and another Orange Line rider grabbed the guy, later identified as Jonathan Pagan, 20, and marched him upstairs in search of police.
Police say that after hearing their stories, the officer told Pagan he was under arrest. According to his report:
Stabbing at State Street T stop
By adamg - 5/6/12 - 9:28 pmAlert New England reports somebody was stabbed in the throat by the Old State House entrance to the State Street T stop around 9 p.m. The T shut down the station to let police investigate the incident.
Christopher Baer tweeted not long after:
I saw a man holding a cloth to his throat getting into an ambulance outside State St. T station a few minutes ago.
Update: Suspect described as black male in 20s, in a black sweatshirt, dark jeans, black shoes and a black hat with a purple brim.
Fed-up Orange Line riders have each others' backs
By adamg - 4/26/12 - 12:44 pmJamaica Plain Patch reports on a late-night incident at Stony Brook station in which four riders teamed up to capture and detain an alleged cell-phone thief - despite some punches from the guy's accomplices.
Man wanted for Orange Line indecent assault
By adamg - 4/24/12 - 9:19 pm
MBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a man who attacked a woman on an Orange Line train somewhere between Downtown Crossing and Malden on the afternoon of March 30.
Police say he sat down next to the woman, began talking to her and then indecently assaulted her. He may have been drunk at the time.
Police describe him as black, between 20 and 25 and 5'7" or 5'8".
Orange Line service to Forest Hills shut by trash fire near Chinatown station
By adamg - 3/31/12 - 1:54 pmA trash fire on the tracks just before Chinatown outbound around 1:40 p.m. shut service to Forest Hills. MBTA workers extinguished the fire themselves, but Boston firefighters went into the tunnel to take a look.
The last major trash fire near the Chinatown stop was almost exactly a year ago.
East Boston man charged as serial T smartphone thief
By adamg - 3/27/12 - 9:39 amAnd now he faces deportation as well, the Metro reports.
T hits quadfecta
By adamg - 3/20/12 - 12:30 pmAt various points this morning, the Green, Red and Blue lines all had problems due to dead trains (at Kenmore, Park and Bowdoin, respectively). No doubt feeling left out, the Orange Line this afternoon developed switch problems.
It was not, however, a rare perfect quadfecta - those only happen when all four lines shut down simultaneously.
