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By adamg - 7/12/23 - 9:53 am

Transit Police report arresting the guy they charge grabbed a woman by the buttocks at Harvard Square station on July 2. They said the man, 31, was arrested at his home in Roxbury yesterday.

By adamg - 7/12/23 - 8:54 am
The front of the line to get on a bus in South Boston this morning

Only the front of the line.

Carina Flynn videoed the lines of people hoping they can get on a 7 bus in South Boston this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 7/11/23 - 3:14 pm

The MBTA reports inbound delays of 20 minutes on the D Line due to a dead trolley at Reservoir, which is becoming the place where D Line trains go to die.

By adamg - 7/11/23 - 9:09 am

The Boston Transportation Department has decided this is the year of the 39 and 57 buses - and has launched studies to see how to improve their routes to get people to and fro faster - and let them "wait comfortably at their bus stops and board the bus safely." Read more.

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 9:04 am

At 8:46 a.m., Karen MacKenzie-Sleeman posted a photo of a Franklin Line train that had stopped just short of Norwood Central and had been sitting there for ten minutes: Read more.

By adamg - 7/7/23 - 12:30 pm

Update: After increasing the delays to 30 minutes, the T has just called off the trains and is bustituting between Park and JFK/UMass as workers try to clear whatever the debris is.

The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the Red Line "while we investigate reports of debris in the track area at Broadway."

By adamg - 7/7/23 - 10:40 am

CommonWealth reports on the seeming paradox of the percentage of subway tracks subject to speed restrictions has actually been going up of late, although it's still less than when the T first announced it had some issues that needed immediate fixing.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 7:54 pm

MBTA Commuter Rail reported at 7:47 p.m. that a train that left Wickford Junction at 4:35 p.m. remained stuck in Sharon, more than two hours after it was supposed to pull into South Station, because of a dreaded "mechanical issue," and now the crew and passengers are waiting for the 5:48 p.m. train from Wickford Junction to arrive and try to push it all the way into town, or off the tracks or something.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 11:35 am
Wanted for indecent assault and battery

Surveillance photo via TPD.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say went up to a woman at the Harvard Square T stop and grabbed her buttocks, around 3:40 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 9:15 am

The MBTA reports Orange Line delays are now reaching 25 minutes due to a brand-new train with "a mechanical issue" at Back Bay.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 5:41 pm

MassDOT announced today it's holding off shutting down the Union Square branch of the Green Line Extension until at least September after realizing that starting a six-week shutdown right after it shut the Sumner Tunnel without consulting with local officials about possible workarounds was kind of stupid. Read more.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 12:49 pm

A woman made a bodice and skirt out of fabric that matches that weird seat pattern on the older Red Line (and Orange Line) cars, then got on the Red Line. She describes how she made the dress, using Red Line seat-like fabric she had printed up (and which you can now buy).

Via Karyn Regal.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 12:13 pm

The MBTA reports Blue Line delays of up to ten minutes as a maintenance crew inspects the seemingly always troublesome overhead wires.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 8:08 am
Open fare gates at a Blue Line stop

Your money's no good on the Blue Line, at least through Aug. 31.

With the Sumner Tunnel now shut for the next two months, the Blue Line is now free, as Donna shows us at Orient Heights. Kind of makes you wonder if freeing the T might be a way for the state to reduce congestion and carbon emissions on Boston-area roads, although that would probably require a fully functional T system.

Other Sumner Tunnel alternatives.

By adamg - 7/4/23 - 9:24 am

The bad news is it's flooded, due to water gushing onto the tracks near Haymarket, the MBTA reports, adding riders downtown can, of course, use the Green Line. More distant riders can get on commuter rail at Forest Hills, Ruggles or Malden Center, although the T doesn't say whether you'll have to pay extra.

By adamg - 7/1/23 - 9:10 pm

The MBTA reports inbound delays of 20 minutes due to a brand new train that died prematurely at Wellington.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 9:01 pm

NBC Boston posts video of "chunks of concrete falling from the ceiling near riders at the Downtown Crossing station on Monday." On a Red Line platform, because that's the line where things fall from above, as opposed to the Orange Line, where things catch on fire.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 12:01 pm

The MBTA reports residual 10-minute delays on the Red Line after doing something about a train stuck at Porter with a door problem. The T did not say if the train in question was one of the new ones.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 10:12 pm

Update: Union Square shutdown delayed until at least September.

The MBTA announced today that the Green Line Extension will be shut between Lechmere and Union Square for six weeks starting July 18, not because there's anything wrong with the tracks this time, but so MassDOT can make repairs to the Squires Bridge, over which McGrath Highway crosses the tracks near Union Square. Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 5:45 pm
Crush at a Blue Line stop at 5:10 p.m.

Tina StGelais Kelly posted some photos from the scene at the State Street Blue Line stop at 5:10 p.m., which make her doubt the Blue Line can possibly handle any of those motorists the state is urging to take the Blue Line when the Sumner shuts on July 5 for repairs: Read more.

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