The Globe reports the T is rolling out a credit-card system at the parking facilities at four large subway parking facilities and one commuter-rail stop this month.
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By adamg - 7/15/12 - 12:43 pm
You snooze you lose? Original.
UPDATE: The person who took the photo says it was at 11 a.m., Saturday, not near midnight.
Last night, MBTA Transit Police tweeted a request: If you see anybody on the T who looks like they could use shelter in this heat, give them a call.
Shortly before midnight, somebody tweeted the above photo to the police, added:
looks like someone needs shelter, or a bed
Redheadedgirl IDed the location:
It's park street, on the Red Line level- you can tell from the pillar.
Steve Annear reports the T is now investigating.
Earlier:
T cop found napping at Mattapan station.
By adamg - 7/15/12 - 10:07 am
Rob Grover reports an incident on a Green Line trolley at Park Street last night that makes you wonder - again - how well T workers keep up with their own written policies, in this case the one that says passengers can take pictures. In a series of tweets, he writes:
3838 at Park St. at 9pm, the motorwoman flashed interior lights on & off, screaming I can't take pics. Why am I harassed about this?
By adamg - 7/13/12 - 9:00 pm
A fare-hike protest that began outside the Park Street T stop this evening ended at Chinatown station on the Orange Line, where 25 protesters held open the fare gates on the inbound side and cheered when maybe 10 people went through the open gates - although some pressed their Charlie Cards to the readers anyway.
By adamg - 7/13/12 - 8:42 am
Boston Fare Strike is planning some fare evasion starting at 6 p.m. today at Park Street. The goal is to protest the recent fare increases, natch.
Bring an instrument or a noise maker and be ready to celebrate Fare Free Friday!
By adamg - 7/12/12 - 6:30 pm
Northbound Orange Line riders reported more delays during this afternoon's rush.
By adamg - 7/9/12 - 10:02 am
Dudley bus crash. Photo by Eric Esteves.
Matt Grabowski tweets it happened at Dudley and Warren around 9:30 a.m. and that at least 12 people were injured. The Boston Fire Department reports several people were taken to local hospitals, with all expected to survive. The bus plowed into a trailer set up for the production crew of a Sandra Bullock movie being filmed in Dudley Square.
More photos: The injured | The bus | The injured and the bus
Filmogaphy: Bullock, of course, previously starred in a movie about an exploding bus, as Jendepo182 notes.
By adamg - 7/5/12 - 3:24 pm
A man arrested at a Shattuck Hospital shelter yesterday was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bail today on charges he stabbed a woman who'd just gotten off a bus from Brockton at the Ashmont T station Tuesday morning, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
By adamg - 7/3/12 - 9:24 am
Boston and Transit police are investigating a stabbing around 9 a.m. at the Ashmont Red Line station in which a woman was attacked with a pen. The suspect is described as a black male, 35-40, with a full beard, wearing blue jeans, black sneakers and possibly a burgundy shirt, last seen walking inbound on Dot. Ave. carrying a jacket in a plastic bag.
By adamg - 7/2/12 - 4:07 pm
Updated MBTA photo policy - dispenses with requirement to show ID if asked, but see the section about not taking photos of "restricted areas," basically inside normally locked doors and the like where only workers go. MBTA Transit Police tweeted this means:
If you are in a public area and can see it, you can photograph it. Stay behind the yellow line!
By adamg - 7/2/12 - 9:53 am
UPDATE: The T reports the pass problem has been fixed in time for the evening rush.
There were two dead trains on the Red Line this morning. Meanwhile, Kristin MacDougall tweets she asked a woman at a customer-service window at Downtown Crossing what to do about the fact that her July pass didn't work:
Woman at T Cust Svc window said: Bad batch of July passes indeed went out. Should work in 2 days. Till then, duck or piggyback.
By adamg - 7/1/12 - 10:26 am
Mats Tolander reports on (and photographs) an incident on Comm. Ave. by BU's Warren Towers yesterday that ended with an MBTA cop spraying a belligerent guy in the face with pepper spray and cuffing him.
By adamg - 7/1/12 - 12:38 am
A toast to confederation! Oh, wait, wrong July 1 holiday. No parades, no little free boxes of mints, just higher fares.
By adamg - 6/30/12 - 11:21 pm
Stuart Spina reports:
Rode the FINAL Route 48 trip this afternoon! After 39 years the route is no more.
By adamg - 6/28/12 - 7:31 pm
Major delays on the Red Line, again, as a dead train is taken out of service at Park Street.
The Sailing Foodie tweeted around 7 p.m.:
Getting motion sick thanks to the MBTA driver who keeps inching the red line train fwd an inch while we are stopped in the tunnel ... #Mbta fail when you get on at park @ 620 and your still stuck btwn Park and MGH 40 minutes later!!!!!! #loosingmymind
Brian adds:
By Ron Newman - 6/28/12 - 11:49 am
Until today, the MBTA's website announced that, effective July 1, there would be a $3 surcharge for any commuter rail ticket bought on the train -- even if you board at a station such as Belmont or Gloucester, which has no ticket machines and no store anywhere nearby that sells tickets.
Outlying commuter train passengers railed against the new surcharge.
By adamg - 6/28/12 - 11:39 am
The MBTA reports ridership in May increased 2.9% over the previous year, the 16th straight month ridership has gone up.
Green Line usage increased 9.1%, the T says.
By adamg - 6/27/12 - 8:40 am
News item: MBTA may sell station names - and one of the first of the new stations could be Emerson Boylston.
Emerson Boylston knew what they say: Gentlemen never drink before 11 a.m. or east of Tremont.
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