Meg Fowler Tripp tweets that around 8 a.m. a man was screaming loudly at the Roslindale Village commuter-rail stop:
I AM VERY VERY ANGRY THAT WHITNEY HOUSTON IS DEAD.
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By adamg - 2/14/12 - 6:46 am
The Outraged Liberal notes the large and growing turnouts at all those MBTA meetings:
Lawmakers really have no one to blame but themselves for this predicament. And the wiggle room is rapidly disappearing. At hearing after hearing the public is making itself heard loud and urgently.
By adamg - 2/13/12 - 7:19 pm
Several hundred people, including Mayor Menino, attended an MBTA service cut/fare hike meeting at the BPL in Copley Square tonight. Michael Ratty snapped a photo of one of the people wondering where Gov. Patrick was.
By adamg - 2/13/12 - 7:46 am
Starts at 4:30 p.m. today, followed by one of the MBTA's don't-blame-us meetings at the BPL.
By adamg - 2/9/12 - 8:25 am
Hotties on the T bills itself as:
Pictures of Men. Taken by Men. On the T.
And unlike that blow in from London, this site doesn't pretend to be about crushes:
This is about admiration. Admiration of fine looking men on the T. From a male perspective. We don't know our subjects, nor do we presume to know if they are gay, bi, or straight. We take unstaged pictures.
By adamg - 2/7/12 - 9:20 pm
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council says payments on more than $5 billion in debt ensure the T will continue to lurch from one financial crisis to another, hurting riders and the regional economy for years to come, unless the legislature steps in to help do something about that debt.
By adamg - 2/6/12 - 6:29 pm
Ryan captured some of the fight at Community College this evening that left the Orange Line all delayed (video NSFW).
By adamg - 2/5/12 - 1:55 pm
Don't try riding your bike up the escalator while holding a cup in one hand. SC reports watching in amazement today as a guy rode his bike down the Orange Line platform at Forest Hills, then tried to ride it up the escalator:
He got stuck at the bottom & spilled his coffee everywhere. ... Got one wheel on and lost control while still on the seat.
Wonder if he's the same guy spotted riding his bike down the Orange Line platform at Back Bay last month.
By Striker57 - 2/4/12 - 4:26 pm
Cut the MBTA Debt NOT MBTA Service
A coalition of riders, community groups and labor organizations have launched a new website -
That explains that debt not transit costs is the problem with funding at the MBTA. Service cuts and fare increases won't solve the problem - not even for a year. It's time the Legislature acted to remove the Big Dig debt from the T.
By adamg - 2/4/12 - 1:38 pm
Photographynatalia took this photo of the shadows at the Red Line stop the other day.
Copyright Photographynatalia. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 2/2/12 - 4:32 pm
At least, we're assuming this guy got his unique jacket on Etsy - just look at that fine handcrafted design!
By adamg - 2/1/12 - 3:53 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports on an incident Monday night in which a man was assaulted by two men who also yelled "racial and homophobic slurs" at him near the Butler Street stop - and then tried to pull him off the trolley.
By adamg - 2/1/12 - 3:14 pm
Also see: Riders of the Hull ferry talk about the proposed end of their commute:
By adamg - 2/1/12 - 11:31 am
A Quincy man was arrested at Ashmont station yesterday after a passenger on an arriving 215 bus from Quincy reported he'd been masturbating on the trip.
By adamg - 1/31/12 - 6:43 pm
Update, 7:25 p.m.: One track was cleared and limited train service through Ruggles resumed.
Commuter-rail and Amtrak service through Ruggles is stopped as transit and fire officials investigate a fatal train-vs-person collision on the inbound side this evening. The T is describing it as a "trespasser strike."
Dan Esdale reports his outbound train to Franklin stopped, then headed back to South Station.
By adamg - 1/31/12 - 7:59 am
The Globe reports the mayor wants the legislature to raise the gas tax or find some other way to help out the debt-ridden MBTA, rather than letting its riders founder.
The Conservation Law Foundation, meanwhile, is decrying the state's current position that riders can choose steep fare hikes or massive service cuts:
By adamg - 1/29/12 - 6:05 pm
The Metro reports on the imminent arrival of a Web site that will let you take pictures of people on the T, then post them for everybody's amusement sober assessments. The founders of Boston T Crush, based on sites they have up in London and New York, promise it will be "complimentary" rather than "creepy" and say Bostonians are getting a special treat - ours will be the first site to devote space to the ladies.
By adamg - 1/27/12 - 9:35 am
The Metro reports Transportation Secretary Rich Davey is looking at some new possible options for preserving existing T services, including charging higher fares during rush hour.
By adamg - 1/27/12 - 8:16 am
Nancy Parker, 53, will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court today on charges she faked an attack on her MBTA bus in Chelsea, then collected worker's compensation.
Parker, of Burlington, is formally charged with worker's compensation fraud, misleading an investigator and filing a false report for the Oct. 2, 2007 incident on a 111 bus, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The T fired her after they learned of discrepancies in her claim, the DA's office says.
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