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By adamg - 7/15/23 - 11:28 am

Transit Police report arresting two men they say used a metal baton to beat a man at Andrew seriously enough around 9 p.m. on Thursday that he had to be hospitalized. Read more.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 5:01 pm

Red Line woes just never end. The MBTA reports delays of up to 20 minutes on the Red Line because not one, but two trains had to be pulled from service at Braintree on account of being deceased.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 10:18 am

The wiring fire on a train at Charles/MGH this morning wasn't the only, um, excitement on the Red Line this morning. Owen reported:

I’m in red line car car 01717. As the train came into Davis station the ceiling at the very rear of the platform started crumbling with debris falling across the platform and a large cloud of dust. It send me and a handful of others running in case of larger debris.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 8:12 am
Firefighters at Charles/MGH

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to the Charles/MGH Red Line station for a fire under the last car of an outbound train around 5:45 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 7/12/23 - 9:53 am

Transit Police report arresting the guy they charge grabbed a woman by the buttocks at Harvard Square station on July 2. They said the man, 31, was arrested at his home in Roxbury yesterday.

By adamg - 7/7/23 - 12:30 pm

Update: After increasing the delays to 30 minutes, the T has just called off the trains and is bustituting between Park and JFK/UMass as workers try to clear whatever the debris is.

The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the Red Line "while we investigate reports of debris in the track area at Broadway."

By adamg - 7/7/23 - 10:40 am

CommonWealth reports on the seeming paradox of the percentage of subway tracks subject to speed restrictions has actually been going up of late, although it's still less than when the T first announced it had some issues that needed immediate fixing.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 11:35 am
Wanted for indecent assault and battery

Surveillance photo via TPD.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say went up to a woman at the Harvard Square T stop and grabbed her buttocks, around 3:40 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 12:49 pm

A woman made a bodice and skirt out of fabric that matches that weird seat pattern on the older Red Line (and Orange Line) cars, then got on the Red Line. She describes how she made the dress, using Red Line seat-like fabric she had printed up (and which you can now buy).

Via Karyn Regal.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 9:01 pm

NBC Boston posts video of "chunks of concrete falling from the ceiling near riders at the Downtown Crossing station on Monday." On a Red Line platform, because that's the line where things fall from above, as opposed to the Orange Line, where things catch on fire.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 12:01 pm

The MBTA reports residual 10-minute delays on the Red Line after doing something about a train stuck at Porter with a door problem. The T did not say if the train in question was one of the new ones.

By adamg - 6/28/23 - 9:32 am

Doors on the new Orange Line trains have proven to be cranky, so it's probably no surprise the problem may be popping up on the new trains on the Red Line, made by the same company with the same basic components. Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 2:57 pm

The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that a short circuit on one of the Red Line's older trains led to Robinson Lalin getting stuck in a door as the train pulled out of Broadway station on April 10, 2022, but that other systems that might have prevented his death also failed him - including one that actually worked as it was intended to. Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/23 - 10:21 am
One shoe

Her remaining shoe.

1000goodintentions's week did not get off to the best of starts this morning: Just as she approached the top of the escalator from the Red Line up to Harvard Square, she had one of her shoes sucked into the mechanism. Read more.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 9:16 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports inspections of two staircases Friday led to the T suddenly shutting the Red Line station - but that the T expects repairs to be finished in time to re-open the station on Saturday.

The shutdown comes 20 months after part of a Savin Hill staircase crashed to the ground, narrowly missing a rider.

By adamg - 6/14/23 - 8:44 am

Transit Police report arresting a man they say demanded a cigarette from a couple standing on the Red Line platform at Quincy Center, then hit the man with a bottle and threatened to stab the woman, around 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/9/23 - 9:23 am
The train in question

The train in question. Photo by Lee Nave Jr.

An apparent electrical fire on an inbound Red Line train at Central filled the train and then the station with smoke around 9 a.m., as passengers were evacuated, Cambridge firefighters rushed down into the station and the T kept tweeting increasing delays due to what it only called "a mechanical problem." Read more.

By adamg - 6/3/23 - 11:12 pm

The MBTA reports trains are running again on the Red Line between Harvard and Alewife, OK, with 20 minute delays, after crews managed to wrestle a dead train at Davis out of the way.

By adamg - 5/29/23 - 9:51 am
Water falling on the third rail at Porter

A roving UHub Red Line passenger took a photo this morning of the water spilling onto the third rail at Porter Square. He also took some video: Read more.

By adamg - 5/25/23 - 10:37 pm

The MBTA reports 25-minute delays on the Braintree branch even after workers managed to dispose of a train "which had its brakes activated," and not in a good way, at North Quincy.

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