Zeke snapped the car whose driver managed to get it across both inbound and outbound Green Line tracks near the BU Bridge, knocking both sides out of commission.
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By adamg - 9/16/23 - 10:24 am
The Federal Transit Agency is once against threatening to treat the MBTA very harshly after once again learning of incidents in which T workers on the tracks faced possible death. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/23 - 5:03 pm
Roving UHub photographer Raymond P. Ausrotas shows us the arrival board at Park Street at rush hour today.
And then he shows us what's under the arrival board at rush hour today: Read more.
By adamg - 9/11/23 - 12:03 pm
Chris Friend points us to Transit Matter's Red Line slow-zone chart, which shows the Red Line now has more delays from slow zones than it did when the MBTA announced speed delays across all the subway lines due to slow zones. Read more.
By adamg - 9/8/23 - 9:44 am
CommonWealth reports that both an outside consultant and an internal study show that contributing to our current slow-transit system is a dysfunctional workplace featuring inadequate staffing, poorly trained workers and bad communication. And that's a key reason the number of slow zones hasn't decreased and why new GM Phil Eng has brought in a bunch of outsiders to try to right the ship, um, tracks.
By adamg - 9/6/23 - 8:28 pm
Remains of the vehicle. Photo by TPD.
Transit Police report that a woman in an MBTA Ride had to be hospitalized after a harrowing ride from Woburn to downtown Boston behind a guy who had jumped into the vehicle and sped off, around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 9/6/23 - 11:15 am
Transit Police report they are investigating a case of bus rage at Tremont and Wigglesworth streets near Brigham Circle around 3 p.m. on Tuesday: Read more.
By adamg - 9/5/23 - 10:19 pm
Benjamin on security footage at Downtown Crossing and at the phone store.
A Cambridge man who was arrested in March by Boston and Cambridge police for robbing the JP Wireless store, 319 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, was charged again today, this time by the FBI after he was charged with violating the federal Hobbs Act for interfering with interstate commerce through threats or violence. Read more.
By adamg - 9/3/23 - 2:13 pm
The MBTA reports delays on the outbound E Line due to a trolley that met its maker at Northeastern.
By adamg - 8/24/23 - 4:36 pm
The MBTA announced it's running shuttle buses between BC and Washington Street due to "an overhead wire problem" near BC.
By adamg - 8/24/23 - 10:57 am
The MBTA announced today it's shutting the Ashmont branch of the Red Line and the Mattapan Line between Oct. 14 and 29 for "critical track work." Read more.
By adamg - 8/23/23 - 5:23 pm
The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the inbound B Line due to a trolley that got to Washington Street then decided, nope, it's not going to risk going down that hill.
By adamg - 8/23/23 - 5:19 pm
The MBTA commuter-rail Twitter feed is lighting up like a pinball machine as one train after another is delayed getting out of and into South Station due to what the T says are "downed wires."
By adamg - 8/20/23 - 11:44 am
Shortly after 10 a.m., the MBTA reported Blue Line delays of 10 minutes this morning after a vandalized train had to be taken out of service at Wonderland.
Transit Police say "juveniles smashed the window out with their feet," so the train had to get a new window.
By adamg - 8/18/23 - 2:11 pm
And that would explain all the debris on the Northeast Corridor tracks in Mansfield. The National Weather Service reports on why there was so much debris on the Northeast Corridor tracks: Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/23 - 12:04 pm
The MBTA reported at 11:14 a.m. it had suspended all Providence Line service "until further notice due to debris on the tracks from severe weather in the Mansfield area. At 11:37, Keolis reported a train to Boston had left Wickford Junction but would hold at Attleboro because some of that debris remained on the tracks. Read more.
By adamg - 8/16/23 - 12:14 pm
Mayor Wu's office is looking for applicants for the new Boston-specific seat on the MBTA board of directors recently approved by the state legislature and Gov. Healey. Read more.
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