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Somebody spreading the happy at Harvard Square

By adamg - 1/28/22 - 3:10 pm

John Overholt shows us the pillar of happiness at the Harvard Square T stop this morning.

The Red Line decides to screw; there's a dead train at Andrew

By adamg - 1/25/22 - 8:00 pm

A Red Line train gave up the ghost at Andrew. The T reported delays of 20 minutes as the train sat there, moldering, but now that they've brought it out back and service has resumed, delays have increased to 25 minutes.

Olivia Mauricio is one unhappy rider. Very unhappy: Read more.

Man pulled out from under train at Andrew

By adamg - 1/1/22 - 4:28 pm

Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to Andrew on the Red Line around 1:30 p.m. for a person under a train. The department reports they were able to remove the man and hand him to Boston EMS, which transported him to a local hospital.

It's a New Year's miracle! New Red Line trains are running again, well, one of them, anyway

By adamg - 12/30/21 - 12:33 pm

Joe Pesaturo posts the video to prove it. You may recall how the new Red Line trains, the one or two that were actually running, were taken out of service while engineers figured out what to do about the way the sister newbies on the Orange Line kept derailing.

Woman who fell on Red Line tracks at South Station as train was coming in sues MBTA, says driver was going too fast

By adamg - 12/29/21 - 12:22 pm

A woman who wound up on the outbound Red Line track with a train over her in 2019 is suing the MBTA for the injuries she suffered, charging she wouldn't have been so seriously hurt if the train operator hadn't come into the station so fast that he could not stop in time. Read more.

Police: Teens beat up man after he objects to them shooting Nerf guns at his head at Downtown Crossing T stop

By adamg - 12/28/21 - 2:21 pm

Transit Police report arresting three of six or seven teens they say threw a man against a wall and punched him repeatedly after he took offense to getting head in the head with projectiles from their Nerf guns, around 7 p.m. on Monday. Read more.

This is no joke: Red Line starts to smoke

By adamg - 12/23/21 - 3:25 pm

A was among the passengers who were not entranced at Broadway when an inbound train began to smoke shortly after 2 p.m.

The T reports the train was taken out of service and given a stern talking to.

Pair of alleged droogs rob sleeping homeless man at Downtown Crossing, and when passerby tries to intercede, they stomp him, police say

By adamg - 12/20/21 - 4:34 pm

Wanted for robbery and assault and battery

Surveillance photo by TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for two men they say robbed one man and stomped a second in the Downtown Crossing station concourse around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

South Station T stop runs red with blood; two stabbed after argument turns violent

By adamg - 12/14/21 - 8:12 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Mattapan man on charges he plunged a knife into a couple of people on a South Station Red Line platform after failing to convince them of his side in an argument around midnight. Read more.

Police say man used a skateboard to challenge officers at Alewife T station; he lost

By adamg - 12/5/21 - 1:06 pm

Transit Police report a man who tried sticking his nose, and his skateboard, in a dispute he had nothing to do with at the Alewife MBTA station early this morning, wound up under arrest - after which officers discovered he was already wanted on unrelated warrants. Read more.

On the Red Line, problems fester; there's no service in Dorchester

By adamg - 12/1/21 - 10:59 am

The MBTA is announcing bustitution between Ashmont and JFK/UMass due to "a power problem" at Fields Corner.

Mask rage: Police say Red Line rider threatened to carve up man who was wearing a mask

By adamg - 11/29/21 - 3:42 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Boston man they say took out a knife and threatened to stab another rider on the Ashmont branch in a dispute over the man's mask this morning. Read more.

Hardly seems fair: Dead train at Harvard Square

By adamg - 11/23/21 - 10:24 am

A Red Line train is experiencing the dreaded "mechanical" problems at Harvard Square, so bad that all the other trains might be asked to "stand by at stations," the MBTA reports.

Braintree riders might want to pass; there's a dead train at JFK/UMass

By adamg - 11/22/21 - 9:47 am

The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the Braintree branch of the Red Line due to a deceased train. One rider reports from the train it didn't quite make it into JFK/UMass:

We're across from the Globe building just sitting here.

Police find BPS student's stolen $3,000 instrument; Dorchester man to be charged as sax offender

By adamg - 11/18/21 - 12:13 am

Transit Police report they've recovered the saxophone stolen from a BPS student at Fields Corner last month. They add:

A 59 year old male resident of Dorchester will face charges relative to this incident.

One can never be too careful on the T

By adamg - 11/17/21 - 10:19 am

Ginnette reports that when she got on the Red Line yesterday afternoon, there was a rider "wearing rubber gloves and spraying Lysol."

Perhaps she'd heard of the guy who urinated on a bus rolling down Mass. Ave. in Cambridge.

Police seek brassy saxophone thief in Dorchester

By adamg - 11/12/21 - 9:29 am

Before and after pics via Transit PD.

Transit Police are seeking the public's help to find a guy who stole a high-school student's $3,000 saxophone as she waited for an outbound Red Line train at Fields Corner last month. Read more.

Somerville man charged as racist Red Line bottle thrower

By adamg - 11/10/21 - 3:21 pm

Transit Police report arresting Shawn Cook, 43, of Somerville on charges he screamed racial slurs at a woman and her young child and then hurled a glass bottle at them on the Red Line on Nov. 5. Read more.

Unmasked man sought as racist attacker on the Red Line; police say he threw glass bottle at woman and baby

By adamg - 11/8/21 - 11:26 am

Thoughtfully had his mask pulled down. Photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who hurled racial slurs at a woman and her one-year-old child on a Red Line train between Kendall and Park Street - and when that wasn't enough, threw a glass bottle at them. Read more.

Man punched, slashed at Andrew station; suspect arrested

By adamg - 11/1/21 - 12:36 pm

A man already awaiting trial on drug charges in Woburn was arrested at the Andrew Square Red Line stop after he allegedly punched another man in the face and then used a knife to slash his face and arm Friday evening, Transit Police report. Read more.

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