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Three teens sought for gay bashing on the Orange Line

By adamg - 7/16/11 - 9:20 pm

Suspects

MBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a black male, a Hispanic male and a white female on charges they attacked a man because of his sexual orientation on a State Street Orange Line platform around 10 p.m. on July 10:

The victim was on the northbound platform when an unidentified male # 2 shoved him onto a train as the doors opened because of the victim's sexual orientation. The unidentified male # 2 as well as the individual depicted as # 1 directed several homophobic slurs at the victim after shoving him. The suspects depicted above along with an unidentified female companion, boarded an Orange Line train at State Street Station with the victim and continued to harass him about his sexual orientation. The suspects then fled the train at Haymarket Station.

If caught, they'll be charged with assault and battery and civil-rights violations.

Green Line goes off the rails near Kenmore

By adamg - 7/16/11 - 6:59 pm

It's a mess on the Green Line tonight due to a "minor derailment" of an outbound trolley between Hynes and Kenmore.

MBTA spokeswoman Lydia Rivera says trolley 3602 derailed around 6:15 p.m. after leaving Hynes. No injuries were reported and passengers were evacuated through the tunnel to Kenmore, Rivera says, adding the T hopes to have repairs made by 8:15 p.m. In the meantime, it's shuttle buses between Kenmore and Copley in both directions.

Scott Madin reports:

Apparently, some truckers didn't hear about the collision up in Maine

By adamg - 7/15/11 - 9:45 am

Close call at rail crossing

Commuting UHub correspondent Banshee took this picture this morning and filed this report:

$150,000 salary, not Big Dig lighting fixtures, might be too much of a strain for state transportation czar to handle

By adamg - 7/14/11 - 4:02 pm

The Globe reports Jeffrey Mullan will depart as state transportation secretary this fall because he needs to make more money, not because of any concerns over his handling of Big Dig safety issues.

Mullan, however, issued a statement after the Globe report came out:

Reports of my departure as Secretary of Transportation this fall are premature.

MBTA trying out new chairs on the Green Line?

By adamg - 7/14/11 - 1:08 pm

If only.

The light at the end of the tunnel

By adamg - 7/14/11 - 9:23 am

Trailer for Escape from the Red Line. All its missing is a theme song by Maureen McGovern.

Man offers Andrew commuters a chance to break his balls, but none take him up on the offer

By adamg - 7/13/11 - 2:00 pm

A man in the process of being removed from an MBTA bus for threatening to kill the driver and his family at Andrew station yesterday evening took all his clothes off and offered passersby a whack at his genitals, according to an MBTA Transit Police report.

Train of the damned: Red Line riders stuck for three hours before being evacuated through tunnel

By adamg - 7/12/11 - 1:52 pm

Red Line evacuation

Carly Marie was on the dead Red Line train between Harvard and Porter this morning and took this photo before stepping down to the tracks for a tunnel walk. She adds:

MBTA Web site going commercial

By adamg - 7/12/11 - 10:14 am

The MBTA has started selling ad space on its Web site, with the first ad scheduled to start tomorrow. The T hopes to make "hundreds of thousands" from online ads.

I want to buy the naming rights to a T stop

By adamg - 7/11/11 - 12:53 pm

I will call it George and I will hug it and pet it and squeeze it and pat it and pet it ...

The new T map.

Purple or more purple for new MBTA locomotives?

By adamg - 7/11/11 - 9:53 am

Commuters will get a chance to help choose the color scheme of the new locomotives the T plans to start rolling out at the end of 2012. Alas, the T has already selected the three finalists, rather than putting up an app that would let you experiment with, say, multi-colored polka dots or Charlie shushing people in the quiet car; you'll get to vote starting tomorrow on mbta.com.

Boston area not immune to planking

By adamg - 7/10/11 - 11:09 pm

Whole series of planking photos, including my favorite - planking the giant steel T outside Alewife. Sometimes, though, it can be hard to tell if somebody is planking or dead drunk.

Burning brush halts Ashmont service on the Red Line

By adamg - 7/7/11 - 8:58 pm

Shuttle buses instead of trains thanks to this, at Savin Hill.

MBTA ponders how to make bus rides even more annoying

By adamg - 7/6/11 - 9:58 am

Audio ads on buses, anyone?

What the Indigo Line will mean

By adamg - 7/6/11 - 9:10 am

A look at the ramifications of the upgrade of the Fairmount Line, which will include four new stations. Skip to 1:30 unless you want to count up all the government buzzwords.

Via the Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition.

Wascally pantogwaph pwobwems pwague Wivaside wine near Waban

By adamg - 7/5/11 - 6:57 pm

A roving Universal Hub reporter filed this report from Woodland this afternoon:

From first hand experience (I was there), a 2-car train (cars no. 3645 and 3843) had their pantographs damaged when entering Woodland station, possibly due to an issue with the overhead wire there. They sent a team over there pretty quick and they tied down the pantographs and shut down the cars. Shuttle buses showed up at Woodland around 45 minutes later.

And that's why there was shuttle-bus service along the D line today.

Police: Man grabbed woman's butt at Forest Hills, then offered her money to stop cursing him out

By adamg - 7/5/11 - 2:59 pm

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Jamaica Plain man on indecent assault and battery charges for an alleged attack at the Forest Hills busway on Saturday.

For those of us who've ever asked

By roadman - 7/1/11 - 2:11 pm

Should we walk, or do we have time to take the T?

, the answer apparently is: It doesn't make a difference.

In their latest attempt to cover up how minimal the replacement shuttle bus service between North Station and Lechmere really is, the MBTA has just put up a series of new posters at North Station "suggesting" that people destined for Science Park might want to walk there instead of taking the shuttle bus. The read (in part):

Getting To Science Park

Shuttle Bus: 15 Minutes
Walking: 15 Minutes

The T was slammin'

By adamg - 7/1/11 - 8:45 am

Listen to Radio Boston's report on the MBTA poetry slam at the Cantab Lounge the other night - which Richard Beaubien took in as well:

MBTA slamming

Red Line train hits worker on Longfellow Bridge

By adamg - 6/30/11 - 10:08 pm

Red Line service was stopped in both directions; traffic a mess as well.

AlertNewEngland reports the worker appears to be conscious. The worker was extricated not long after rescue crews arrived. Channel 7 reports he suffered only minor arm injuries.

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