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By adamg - 3/25/13 - 11:08 am
The Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board last week ordered the city of Boston to pay back some $2.4 million in property taxes levied against the company that leases parts of South Station for retail and office use, because state law forbids property tax assessments on any MBTA property, even if it's used for commercial concerns.
The payments cover taxes the company paid in 2009 and 2010.
By adamg - 3/20/13 - 7:11 pm
UPDATE: Around 7:15, a Needham train inched through Back Bay while other trains got re-routed through Dorchester.
A switch just past Back Bay apparently decided to show MBTA officials what it thought of their idea to delay needed maintenance this evening, so now commuters get to enjoy the culinary offerings of South Station, or the two Dunkin' Donuts at Back Bay.
As commuters sat on unmoving trains, the T was endearing itself to the ones on Twitter with:
By adamg - 3/18/13 - 10:14 am
In addition to the Lowell guy charged with kicking a woman in the throat at Downtown Crossing, Transit Police report arresting two young men for whom the lure of the big city proved too enticing yesterday:
By adamg - 3/13/13 - 2:11 pm
This time, the rail was between South Station and Broadway, shortly before 1 p.m., and, of course, its impact was felt all up and down the Red Line.
Mykah Murphy tweeted from Park Street:
MBTA workers shouting at one another, no Ashmont/Braintree bound trains leaving Park station. No trains on Alewife tracks.
Christine added:
By adamg - 3/10/13 - 12:30 pm
Transit Police report a 25-year-old man from New York got down onto the inbound Red Line tracks at South Station around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday and was hit and killed by a train.
Police are continuing to investigate the incident, such as trying to determine why the man "walked into the pit area."
By adamg - 3/5/13 - 8:15 am
A time-conscious citizen complains about a Quincy Patriot Ledger honor box outside South Station that has gone unfilled for three years now:
Typical graffiti and stickers creates an eyesore.
By adamg - 2/8/13 - 7:09 pm
Sven Heistad was amazed how empty Comm. Ave. in the Back Bay was this afternoon.
Empty Comm. Ave. in Allston. Copyright Photographynatalia.
By adamg - 1/24/13 - 7:15 am
Yesterday's troublesome Green Line junction box, covered in foam. Photo by BFD.
By adamg - 1/23/13 - 11:34 am
A bus pulled into the South Station terminal this morning with a man who expired on his journey.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports the Vermont resident, 78, got on a bus in Lebanon, NH at 7:25 a.m. for the trip to Boston. Somebody noticed he was unresponsive around 10 a.m. in Chinatown, as the bus neared South Station, the DA's office says. There were no signs of trauma or foul play, but the investigation continues.
By adamg - 1/16/13 - 7:46 am
The T is alerting inbound riders that there's plenty of Orange Line service at Ruggles, should they wish to get off the train there.
By adamg - 1/7/13 - 7:31 am
Commuter-rail lines that share the Northeast Corridor with Amtrak (Providence, Franklin and Needham) are reporting delays thanks to an overhead Amtrak wire that came down somewhere between Forest Hills and downtown.
By adamg - 1/5/13 - 10:10 am
Utile reports on an interesting proposal by a couple of Yale architecture students: Drain Fort Point Channel south of Summer Street and put the tracks underground there - under a brand-new South Station:
The benefit is a fully subterranean train station, allowing for the redevelopment of both the existing and new track areas for urban development that can knit the Leather District directly to the loft buildings in the Fort Point District.
By adamg - 1/4/13 - 11:05 am
MBTA Transit Police ordered a shutdown of the South Station bus terminal when a janitor found a strange item in the trash in the men's room. Alert New England reports it was a stolen coin box from a pay phone.
Earlier:
Riverside station shut due to suspicious coffee maker.
By adamg - 12/29/12 - 11:51 am
Sarah M. tweets:
Little kid asks dad why toy train at South Station isn't moving, "because it's just like real life."
By adamg - 12/28/12 - 10:20 am
MBTA Transit Police report arresting William Gwiazda, 33, on charges he went up to an undercover cop at the South Station bus terminal around 7:30 p.m. yesterday, started chatting him up, then offered to sell him some methadone:
Ultimately Gwiazda did indeed sell the detective Methadone, a Controlled Class B substance as defined by Massachusetts General Law. In addition to the methadone Gwiazda sold to the UC he was also in possession of additional Methadone he was offering for sale.
By adamg - 11/20/12 - 5:12 pm
Matt O'Connor tweeted around 4:30 p.m.:
South Station: girl, Northeastern Sweatshirt, literally carrying a hamper of dirty laundry.
To which Brian D'Amico, himself of the Huskie ilk, replies:
Well ... how else is the laundry going to get home?
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