Silver Line
MBTA starts useful service and the Herald won't stand for that
By adamg - 5/16/12 - 7:07 amSeems that when a big convention is in town, the MBTA runs special Silver Line service to the airport straight from the convention center, rather than making people carry their bags on that long walk to the nearest Silver Line stop and crowding onto a bus there.
Are you outraged? The Herald is, to the point of displacing its long-running Indian Joke of the Day series from the front page, which today features end-of-world fonts to accuse the T of stealing "all" its buses to service fat-cat conventioneers. Who, the Herald grudgingly admits, pay their fares just like rest of us - but only after the paper's crack investigative unit did some undercover surveillance:
On Friday, a Herald reporter and photographer observed people at the convention center paying regular fares to board the nonstop airport-bound Silver Line buses. The drivers did not take normal Silver Line routes or make any Silver Line stops before dropping passengers at Logan Airport. A driver said the buses provide conventioneers with rides to the airport. A bus tailed by the Herald did not follow the Silver Line’s dedicated bus route, instead driving directly to the Ted Williams Tunnel.
The horror!
Ed. derail question: Why is the convention center stop so far away from the convention center?
Alleged spitting puncher arrested on Silver Line bus
By adamg - 4/25/12 - 1:44 pm
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a homeless man on charges he punched and spit in the face of a Silver Line driver who asked him to pay his fare.
Sean Stuart, 43, was arrested shortly after 10 a.m. at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue - after being pulled off the driver by several Boston Police officers, Transit Police say.
According to an MBTA Transit Police report:
Free Silver Line service from Logan to South Station could start in June
By adamg - 4/10/12 - 7:56 amWBZ reports Massport is expected to make a final decision on April 26 on a three-month pilot project.
T to discipline Silver Line driver for cursing out motorist who ran red light at tunnel entrance
By adamg - 3/15/12 - 3:59 pmThe Metro reports on the incident, which happened at the scene of two collisions in the past three months caused by motorists running the lights.
If Angry Red Line Chick needs a new boyfriend, there's this driver on the Silver Line ...
By adamg - 3/12/12 - 10:00 pmThe Metro posts a video of an Angry Silver Line Driver.
Earlier:
Angry Red Line Chick.
What is it about the red lights at the Silver Line tunnel that makes them so invisible to drivers?
By adamg - 3/7/12 - 5:13 pmFor the second time in three months, a driver ran a red light at D Street in South Boston and plowed into a Silver Line bus about to descend to World Trad Center, the MBTA reports. The driver, Adam Galarza of New Bedford, was cited for failing to stop at a red light and an expired inspection sticker after the 1:40 p.m. collision, the T says, adding nobody on the bus was injured.
Compare to December's crash at the same location.
Silver Line stats show Southie surge
By adamg - 10/19/11 - 10:38 amThese stats just in from the T for the South Boston end of the Silver Line for January through August:
- Total annual year-to-date ridership up 7.0% from 3,148,612 in 2010 to 3,368,580 in 2011.
- Average weekday ridership up 5.7% from 15,015 in 2010 to 15,877 in 2011.
- Average Saturday ridership up 67.3% from 5,550 in 2010 to 9,285 in 2011.
- Average Sunday ridership up 8.0% from 8,422 in 2010 to 9,098 in 2011.
What's wrong with the Silver Line?
By adamg - 10/11/11 - 10:10 amA lot, a Suffolk professor writes.
Police looking for man who smacked Silver Line driver in the face with a pipe or flashlight
By adamg - 9/18/11 - 4:22 pmThe MBTA reports the driver of a Silver Line bus was taken to Tufts Medical Center with non-life-threatening "lacerations to the upper lip and eye area" after the attack around 3 p.m. at Washington and Kneeland streets The search for the suspect, who fled the scene, continues.
Seriously missing Boston
By adamg - 8/3/11 - 10:55 pmRob V. checks in from the Other Coast:
I'm sitting in a terminal at LAX and wishing I was waiting for the Silver Line.
I hate the Silver Line.
I love my family in LA, but I hate this city so much that I wish I was on the Silver Line right now...
