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By adamg - 1/10/13 - 11:53 am
MBTA Transit Police report officers on patrol at the Central Square Red Line stop yesterday morning spotted a couple making their way onto the platform without paying. Police report this was the third time the male half, Christopher Reed, 26, of Cambridge, has been caught fare evading. He did, however, get a free ride - in the back of a cruiser to T police headquarters - because, police say, he was also wanted on a Cambridge drug charge. The woman? With no outstanding criminal charges, she was captured and released.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 1/9/13 - 9:26 pm
Rosina Lucibello reports she was waiting for an Alewife train on the Red Line around 7:15 p.m. tonight when an apparent drunk fell onto the tracks on the other side:
Watched a drunk guy fall. Then immediately another commuter jumped in and got him. Simple as that. He never hesitated. We were speechless. The guy went down on tracks. Grabbed him and helped him up. Then pulled himself back up. Very heroic and quick! We got nervous because they announced train approaching. Tense moment.
By adamg - 1/8/13 - 6:44 pm
Riders on the 5:40 train to Fitchburg tweeted their train came to a sudden stop in Cambridge after hitting a car at a crossing there. AsianKerr reported the conductor came on the PA not long after:
Sorry folks, we have struck a vehicle.
After getting the remains of the car out of the way and after the train engineer was interviewed by police, the train started back up around 6:24 p.m.
By adamg - 1/7/13 - 8:05 pm
Kat G. says she was pretty surprised to see graffiti on an inbound train this evening at Walpole.
By adamg - 1/7/13 - 7:31 am
Commuter-rail lines that share the Northeast Corridor with Amtrak (Providence, Franklin and Needham) are reporting delays thanks to an overhead Amtrak wire that came down somewhere between Forest Hills and downtown.
By adamg - 1/7/13 - 7:14 am
The Wandering Jew reports he isn't wandering all that much on the Green Line this morning:
This T driver is giving me whiplash. Impressive given how slowly we're going.
Joy. Alarms going off on the T. Driver using the emergency brake/door release to let passengers off.
Passengers on board urging the T to move with encouraging chants of "come on, come on" and "you can do it..."
I am not chanting encouragements. I'm muttering curses.
By adamg - 1/5/13 - 2:08 pm
MBTA Transit Police have released photos of two guys they say approached somebody at the Bremen Street entrance to the Airport T stop on Dec.
By adamg - 1/5/13 - 12:37 pm
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a woman they say stole a Silver Line inspector's bag, threw it into Fort Point Channel and then announced to officers that she couldn't help herself because she's a kleptomaniac.
Nyllabrii Raikou, 20, was arrested shortly after 10 p.m. yesterday on the Summer Street bridge - where they found her being pursued by the inspector. Police say the inspector arrived at the inspector's booth at the Silver Line platform at South Station to find Raikou inside:
By adamg - 1/5/13 - 10:18 am
Cactus on the Stair reports on how one Sob Story Guy's night ended with him on the train harassed by a panhandler.
By adamg - 1/5/13 - 10:10 am
Utile reports on an interesting proposal by a couple of Yale architecture students: Drain Fort Point Channel south of Summer Street and put the tracks underground there - under a brand-new South Station:
The benefit is a fully subterranean train station, allowing for the redevelopment of both the existing and new track areas for urban development that can knit the Leather District directly to the loft buildings in the Fort Point District.
By adamg - 1/4/13 - 8:19 am
In 2013, the Red Line is now 3 for 3 for morning delays, this time due to signal problems at North Quincy.
The Green Line also had problems, outbound on the B branch, due to a dead train.
By adamg - 1/3/13 - 11:28 pm
Matt Karolian looked at a wall display at the Arlington stop on the Green Line. And then he looked closer.
By adamg - 1/3/13 - 12:52 pm
They've been workin' on the railroad at Central. Photo by MBTA.
UPDATE: The T reports service resumed around 2:10 p.m., with, of course, residual delays.
Ruddy S. reports a broken rail. The T says it's now busing between Kendall and Harvard.
Dani B., who took the photo below, tweets:
One lousy bus waiting for us at Kendall #shocker
Red turns yellow at Kendall.
By adamg - 1/3/13 - 7:18 am
UPDATE: A second Red Line train died at Alewife; another Green Line trolley gave up the ghost, bollxing up outbound C and E service. Commuter rail? You don't want to know.
In this young year, the Red Line is now 2 for 2 in morning-commute delays due to dead trains, this time at JFK/UMass, but today has the extra bonus of delays due to "weather-related issues."
Meghan C. reports it took her 75 minutes to get from Braintree to MGH.
By adamg - 1/2/13 - 9:08 am
Dead train at Broadway and those residual delays just killed the last part of the morning commute. Erika Gordon reports on how she and some fellow commuters put their left foot in, they put their left foot out, they put their left foot in and they shook it all about:
And now we're playing musical trains. "Everyone get off of the train, there's a problem." "Alright, everyone back on, we fixed it."
At Davis, Adam Schmucker tweets:
By adamg - 1/1/13 - 3:24 pm
The T did its part to encourage bike riding in 2012.
On a big system like the T (several hundred thousand riders on a weekday), you'd expect a certain amount of weirdness. You'd be right. Some examples from 2012:
By adamg - 1/1/13 - 3:11 pm
Crash aftermath. Note cluster of meter maids on right. Photo by Susan Zalkind.
A lot of angry people take the T, including a T driver in Kenmore Square, who angrily responded to a BTD supervisor who wanted her to move her bus by flooring the accelerator, hitting the supervisor and several parked cars.
More anger on the T:
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