Wicked Local Cambridge reports on an incident early on Aug. 31 on Mass. Ave., in which an alleged drunk screaming epithets at riders on a T bus was pulled off and then started hitting his head on the sidewalk. When an officer put his boot under the guy's head to keep him from cracking his head off, the report states, the man began bitting the officer's boot.
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester man for indecent assault and battery on a 28 bus Saturday afternoon - thanks in part to the bus driver, who refused to open the doors for him as she pulled into Dudley station.
According to a police report, Jose Morales, 28, was sitting near the front of the bus around 2:20 p.m., Saturday, when the bus stopped at Warren and Circuit streets, and he stood up and grabbed the left butt cheek of a woman sitting in front of him. She screamed she'd just been grabbed and stood up - at which point Morales grabbed her again, police say.
The bus driver told police Morales tried to get off the bus, but she instead kept the doors closed until she got to Dudley station, where police were waiting.
The T reports Morales is the 14th person arrested for indecent assault and battery on its system this year.
This past December on the 28:
The bus wasn't the only thing that was jerking between Dudley and Ruggles Friday afternoon
Innocent, etc.
Roving UHub photographer Jake Wark become walking UHub photographer Jake Wark this morning, thanks to a dead Red Line (happy Sept. 1!), which is how he came upon these T workers just before the Longfellow working fast to fix whatever it was that broke.
Columbus Avenue slobs.
It's as if we've been hit by a hurricane of slobbery. Citizens Connect this morning is just filled with reports of mounds of filth and vermin, including:
Although some may have some delays, the T says.
Updated Monday morning
The MBTA says it hopes to have all trains, buses and ferries running on normal weekday schedules first thing Monday morning.
The one possible problem: The Riverside Line, hard hit with track-seeking trees and limbs that came down in impressive numbers, in some cases landing on overhead wires on their way down.
"Crews are working very hard to have the Riverside Line ready for the morning commute," the T said in a statement."
Tom Myers took this photo of the Cambridge Street bus stop in Inman Square, adds:
Worth closing the T.
The MBTA forwarded this photo of a tree down on the Red Line just south of Fields Corner and this photo of a tree down just north of JFK/UMass:
The MBTA provided this photo of the Green Line between Chestnut Hill and Reservoir stations. More photos in the comments.
UPDATE: MassDOT announced after the T announcement that trains and buses would run until 8 a.m. to let health-care workers get to their jobs.
No subways, no trains, no buses after 8 a.m., the MBTA announced tonight:
Shaun Engstrom reports this morning:
BREAKING NEWS: Coraline stop motion ad between Harvard & Central Sq replaced w/ Blue Man Group. It's been 2 years, praise the MBTA gods.
Dynamic duo: Davis and Davey
The MBTA's longtime chief financial officer will become acting general manager when Richard Davey takes over the Mass. Department of Transportation in a couple of weeks, the T announced today.
Boston Biker reports on the planned facilities at Braintree, Ashmont, Davis Square, Oak Grove and Malden Center - and that they will use a different and better rack design than the existing cages, based on input from actual bicyclists.
Dave reports an incident shortly before 8 a.m. at the West Newton commuter-rail stop:
Exciting AM - just did CPR on a commuter at west newton. We got to him just after he collapsed; started CPR.
And Newton EMS shocked him from vfib back to sinus rhythm ... He had a pulse when we put him on the ambulance.
Hot off the developer's desktop: Talk to the T. Fairly barebones (let's you send a note and attach a photo to MBTA Customer Service), doesn't have standard MBTA branding yet, and only for iPhone/iPad. It's by a senior Web developer at the T.
Thanks to Stuart for spotting this.
A Jamaica Plain man got cut over his left eye during a struggle with an MBTA Transit Police officer investigating threats against a worker at the Wood Island Blue Line stop last night.
Just a normal morning on the Red Line: One inbound train died, so the train behind it was summoned to push it - after first dumping passengers at Savin Hill. PinayNoire exclaims:
MBTA captain's log 8192011: Still stranded in Savin Hill with inhabitants of planet Dorchester. Must. Get. Air.
Power was shut off to the Red Line this afternoon as Boston firefighters investigated burning trash on the tracks near Broadway station.
Meanwhile, for all the problems on the T, riders are unlikely to be delayed due to cows, unlike out in Amherst:
MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo forwarded the photo and this account:
A man arrested but never tried for stabbing and spitting on a man on a 39 bus in Jamaica Plain in 2004 will finally face charges after police tracked him to his new home in Roxbury.
Michael Hughes, 64, never went before a jury because not long after his arrest, he was turned over to Maryland authorities to face trial on charges he killed a man preparing Christmas baskets for the poor in 1974. Convicted of second-degree murder in 2005, he spent three years in a Maryland prison, then at some point after his release came back to Boston.
According to a report by MBTA Transit Police, Hughes went berserk on a 39 bus at South and Centre streets around 4 p.m. on Sept 5, 2004 when he thought the "openly gay" man behind had deliberately kicked his seat. He allegedly whipped out a knife and began slicing the man's arm as he also spit at him and began screaming anti-gay epithets at him.
Boston Police first noticed Hughes was back in town last fall, Transit Police report: A Boston Police detective noticed a man he thought was Hughes in a homeless shelter on Massachusetts Avenue in November.
But Hughes evaded the two police forces until yesterday, when the same detective spotted him entering 6 Hartford St. in Roxbury. He alerted Transit Police, who found a default warrant for the 2004 attack and sent several detectives and officers to the address yesterday afternoon.
Police say Hughes tried to slip out the back door and then by denied any knowledge of the 2004 incident or of the alias he used at the time. His tattoos and physical characteristics, however, did him in, police report.
Innocent, etc.
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