The MBTA had to roll out buses to replace the Red Line between Alewife and Harvard this morning after a train exhaled its last at Porter Square, the deepest station on the line. Things are now back to what passes for normal these days, the T reports.
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The MBTA announced today that the Fairmount Line will be free between Oct. 14 and 29, at least to people with CharlieCards - as a possible replacement for the Mattapan Line and Ashmont service on the Red Line, which will be shut then for track repairs. The T will also be running shuttle buses along the Mattapan and Ashmont lines then.
The MBTA had to shut Red Line service inbound from Harvard Square after paper in rubbish barrels along the tracks underneath Quincy Street caught fire around 9:30 a.m. Read more.
Ginnette, who just had foot surgery, hobbled onto the Red Line this morning:
So your phone needs its own seat now?
The Federal Transit Agency is once against threatening to treat the MBTA very harshly after once again learning of incidents in which T workers on the tracks faced possible death. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Raymond P. Ausrotas shows us the arrival board at Park Street at rush hour today.
And then he shows us what's under the arrival board at rush hour today: Read more.
Chris Friend points us to Transit Matter's Red Line slow-zone chart, which shows the Red Line now has more delays from slow zones than it did when the MBTA announced speed delays across all the subway lines due to slow zones. Read more.
The FBI today arrested former Transit Police sergeant David Finnerty, 47, of Rutland, for his alleged role in helping one of his underlings cover up the way that officer used a baton to beat a homeless man at the Ashmont T station - and then arrest the man for on a bogus charge for attacking him. Read more.
The MBTA announced today it's shutting the Ashmont branch of the Red Line and the Mattapan Line between Oct. 14 and 29 for "critical track work." Read more.
Transit Police report arresting several teens they say responded to a woman's request to settle down on the Red Line Thursday night by pointing gel-pellet guns at her - with one opening fire and shooting her in the mouth. Read more.
Bri chronicles delays on the Red Line caused by problems on four different trains in the span of just one hour yesterday evening: Read more.
Another Gay Boston Realtor, who spotted a storrowing at the Red Line bridge over Freeport Street earlier this month, got stuck in traffic again this afternoon when the driver of a beefy 18-wheeler tried his luck - and lost.
The MBTA shut power on the Red Line in both directions at JFK/UMass after a third rail caught fire just before the station around 4:20 p.m. Read more.