Cambridge Day reports why windows on the Russell Field side of the station now consist of plywood instead of glass.
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By adamg - 7/8/22 - 5:07 pm
A roving UHub photographer down the Cape spotted an abandoned Red Line train near the Coast Guard part of Joint Base Cape Cod.
By adamg - 7/7/22 - 10:53 am
As Garrett Quinn reminds us, there's always a Massachusetts connection. In 2015, then London Mayor Boris Johnson came to town for some conference at Harvard, and got on the Red Line for the trip across the river. But it was the middle of one of our blizzards that year, so he wound up having a chat with some random chap at Park Street.
By adamg - 7/4/22 - 2:06 pm
The MBTA announced today it's returned all the new Orange Line cars to service, along with the smaller number of new Red Line cars it has. Read more.
By adamg - 6/24/22 - 3:26 pm
The Dorchester Reporter explains why another set of stairs at the JFK/UMass Red Line and commuter-rail station is shut.
By adamg - 6/24/22 - 9:14 am
The front wheels of a Red Line car came off the rails in a mishap yesterday at the MBTA's Cabot Yard in South Boston.
According to an initial internal account, a driver was moving four cars: Read more.
By adamg - 6/17/22 - 2:27 pm
The T today announced its first step in responding to this week's critical safety demands from federal investigators: Starting Monday, it will run fewer trains on weekdays on the Red, Orange and Blue Lines to give employees at its Operations Control Center a breather until it can find and train more of them. Read more.
By adamg - 6/17/22 - 12:41 am
Emulsion Mike rode home on the Red Line with some Celtics fans tonight.
By adamg - 6/13/22 - 3:50 pm
Surveillance photo via Transit PD.
Transit Police have issued a BOLO for an angry-looking man they say attacked a woman without provocation this morning at the Alewife Red Line stop this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 6/13/22 - 10:42 am
Transit Police have released photos of two guys they say pointed a gun at somebody at Wollaston on the Red Line around 3 p.m. on Friday.
If they look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous tip to 873873.
By adamg - 5/28/22 - 11:27 am
Transit Police report arresting a total of four teens for a knifepoint robbery attempt that turned into a beating at Shawmut station on the Red Line on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 5/26/22 - 8:57 am
Transit Police report arresting a 15-year-old for his alleged role in an attempted knifepoint robbery of two men at the Shawmut Red Line station on Monday that ended with several teens punching the men in the head.
This investigation is ongoing and we anticipate further arrests will be made relative to this matter.
By adamg - 5/23/22 - 5:40 pm
Update: One teen arrested, more arrests likely.
WFXT reports the two men were surrounded near the Shawmut station bike rack around noon and asked for money and when they refused, one teen pulled a knife and then the group punched the men in the heads. Unclear if they then got money.
By adamg - 5/14/22 - 10:31 pm
Firefighters and EMS responded to Park Street station around 10:15 p.m. due to a person on the southbound tracks. He was quickly determined to be dead, and firefighters removed his body. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/22 - 10:56 pm
Transit Police and Boston firefighters responded to the inbound side of the Andrew Red Line station around 10:40 p.m. after a man somehow wound up on the tracks, bleeding from the head, next to the third rail as a train was coming in.
The man was not under the train, so firefighters were able to quickly get him off the tracks and hand him over to Boston EMS for transport to a local hospital.
By adamg - 4/27/22 - 8:58 pm
Transit Police report arresting the man they say got on the Red Line at Ashmont last Thursday, carefully took off his pants and underwear, then got off before leaving the train at Savin Hill.
Read more.
By adamg - 4/25/22 - 10:49 am
Photos via TPD.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Transit Police are looking for a man they say got on the Red Line at Ashmont Thursday morning, then took off his pants and underwear and proceeded to "commit a lewd act," which police do not specify but which you can probably figure out. Read more.
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