The Outraged Liberal considers what's next for T riders, notes the Globe buried a statement by acting T GM Jonathan Davis that the authority is redrafting its plans for the coming year and that it won't be going with either of the two options for dramatic service cuts/fare hikes it proposed in Janauary.
Channel 4 tracks down and interviews the woman with fists of fury at Park Street.
The Metro posts a video of an Angry Silver Line Driver.
Earlier:
Angry Red Line Chick.
Some people just complain about things. Not Cameron Booth. He followed up his complaint about how cluttered the current T map is with a proposed overhaul.
H.943 is the brainchild of state Rep. Tom Sannicandro of Ashland:
To ensure fair treatment of commuter rail passenger, the authority shall not have the power to collect fares on commuter rail trains that depart 20 or more minutes after their originally scheduled departure time, or from the passenger of any car of a commuter rail train that fails to provide reasonable temperature regulation.
What a racket: Andrea Garvey snapped this seat hog this morning.
The Herald tries to whip us into a frenzy over people who take up more than one seat on the T, notes New York fines the pigs, obtains obligatory quote from T spokesman about how the authority has more pressing issues, such as trying to figure out how to keep trains and buses running in the first place.
Brian D'Amico and Dan Adams report a guy was hit by a train around 8:30 p.m. on the Needham Line tracks between Home Depot and the West Roxbury Education Complex.
And was promptly delayed so emergency workers could retrieve somebody who fell onto the tracks at Davis. No contact with the third rail, at least, Mike Moura tweets.
UPDATE: Channel 4 tracks down, interviews the woman.
The guy who posted the video of the pummeling on Friday as the train was pulling into Park Street writes:
L.V. Randolph - cofounder of a company trying to work with the T on revenue enhancement - tweeted at 10:44 a.m. he'd been sitting there for 30 minutes while the T tries to get a relief train in place.
The tweeting must have done the trick - three minutes later, he was tweeting from Charles/MGH.
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council has put up an MBTA budget calculator that lets you play with different ways of paying for the T. If only it were this easy to get the legislature to actually do something about the problem.
WBUR reports on a new MBTA initiative to reduce the number of people riding the rails for free.
When I got on on the second car of an inbound trolley at Hynes early this afternoon, it was fairly crowded, and the back half of the car was packed with high-school kids.
About halfway between Arlington and Boylston, WHAM, the train slammed to a stop. Some guy began yelling "Is everybody OK?" The operator got on the PA and asked the same question. Everybody was. And then the operator got back on and said "You kids back there better stop fooling around, somebody's going to get hurt."
Boston Police report an off-duty cop returning home from a detail at the Garden last night had to subdue an out-of-control passenger who, after refusing to stop harassing other passengers, turned on him and sent him to the hospital with minor injuries.
According to police, the cop, heading toward his car at Forest Hills around 11 p.m., perked up when he noticed Aisha Abdi Yusuf, 22, screaming at some men at the other end of their train car. When he asked her - "quietly," police say - to knock it off and sit down, she turned on him:
This afternoon, it's homebound commuter-rail riders at South Station sharing a very special experience thanks to switch issues. TH sighs:
When I die and go to hell, I'll just end up back on the MBTA and every day will be Monday.
Broken trolleys on the Green Line, borked signals on the Orange Line, non-functioning lights on the Red Line at Park Street. But at least the Blue Line was working just fine.
Oh, and don't be so smug, morning drivers: Storrow inbound was FUBAR.
A college student from western Massachusetts wrote to state Sen. Stan Rosenberg, D-Amherst, asking he join efforts to help the MBTA stave off fare hikes and service cuts by doing something about Big Dig-related debt the state put on the T. Rosenberg replied:
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
