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By adamg - 6/28/23 - 12:43 pm

Update, 2:05 p.m. MBTA reports repairs made, service starting back up.

WFXT reports. The station filled with smoke from the fire.

By adamg - 6/28/23 - 9:32 am

Doors on the new Orange Line trains have proven to be cranky, so it's probably no surprise the problem may be popping up on the new trains on the Red Line, made by the same company with the same basic components. Read more.

By adamg - 6/28/23 - 7:22 am

The MBTA reports inbound delays of 20 minutes on the D Line due to a train that left this mortal coil at Reservoir.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 2:57 pm

The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that a short circuit on one of the Red Line's older trains led to Robinson Lalin getting stuck in a door as the train pulled out of Broadway station on April 10, 2022, but that other systems that might have prevented his death also failed him - including one that actually worked as it was intended to. Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 8:18 am

The MBTA reports the morning commute included 15-minute delays on the Orange Line when one of those brand, if no longer spanking, new trains suffered another embarrassing "door issue," this time at Green Street.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 8:01 am
Honda CRV into the back of an MBTA bus

Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report that at 5:30 this morning, somebody in a Honda SUV drove into the back of an MBTA bus outside Kenmore station. The driver then ran away, police say, adding what was left of his or her SUV was towed away. The bus was driven away.

By adamg - 6/26/23 - 10:21 am
One shoe

Her remaining shoe.

1000goodintentions's week did not get off to the best of starts this morning: Just as she approached the top of the escalator from the Red Line up to Harvard Square, she had one of her shoes sucked into the mechanism. Read more.

By adamg - 6/25/23 - 11:30 am

The MBTA reports 15-minute delays on the D Line due to a trolley that has lost the will to live at Reservoir.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 9:16 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports inspections of two staircases Friday led to the T suddenly shutting the Red Line station - but that the T expects repairs to be finished in time to re-open the station on Saturday.

The shutdown comes 20 months after part of a Savin Hill staircase crashed to the ground, narrowly missing a rider.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 11:50 am
Smashed SUV

Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report arresting a man they say was drunk when he drove into the Harvard Square bus tunnel and then crashed his SUV into a pole, around 12:30 this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 2:38 pm

The MBTA reports a "power problem" has knocked out the newest part of the Green Line, between Medford/Tufts and Lechmere, and says riders should consider taking the 80 bus instead.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 1:16 pm

The MBTA reports it will shut down the entire B Line between July 17 and 28 for repairs on top of the repairs it performed for 12 days last summer. Read more.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 9:17 am

The Dorchester Reporter provides an update on the MBTA's plans to replace the current 1940s trolleys on the Mattapan Line with more recent Green Line trolleys: It could take a decade to get everything ready and would involve the elimination of the current loop track at Ashmont.

By adamg - 6/20/23 - 9:58 am
Photos of alleged attackers

Photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a pair of allegedly angry Green Line riders for an attack on a trolley between Park and Boylston in which the man repeatedly punched the victim in the head around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Police provided this account: Read more.

By adamg - 6/20/23 - 9:35 am

Transit Police report that when the driver of a T bus near South Bay tried to get three disorderly teens to quiet down, one of them shot him with a BB gun, around 6 p.m. on Monday. The three then jumped off the bus, but police report they found them in Andrew Square and arrested the alleged shooter. The operator declined medical attention, police say.

Earlier:
Three teens shoot T bus driver with BB guns in Mattapan, police say

By adamg - 6/18/23 - 6:47 pm

A dead trolley at Hynes means outbound Green Line service is facing at least 20 minute delays, just as people are relying on the Green Line to get to Kenmore for the Sox/Yankees game. Or as Michelle Greenberg reports:

Stuck on green line trying to get to Fenway. Train lost power all green line shut down

By adamg - 6/14/23 - 8:44 am

Transit Police report arresting a man they say demanded a cigarette from a couple standing on the Red Line platform at Quincy Center, then hit the man with a bottle and threatened to stab the woman, around 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/14/23 - 8:37 am

John Rafferty, 69, of Hale’s Location, NH, this week pleaded guilty to a count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme in which he and his alleged accomplice, Keolis Commuter Services Assistant Chief Engineer John Pigsley, stole several million dollars worth of trucks and services through bogus invoices to Rafferty's contracting company. Read more.

By adamg - 6/14/23 - 8:11 am

Transit Police report that when a Route 28 driver stopped to pick up three teens outside the BPL branch on Blue Hill Avenue around 1 a.m. on Monday, they whipped out pellet guns and began shooting the driver.

Despite their close range, the three did not injure the driver, police say, adding they then ran away.

By adamg - 6/12/23 - 3:15 pm
Derailed wheels at Packards Corner

Photo by Lipistickey.

It's buses all the way down as the T replaces B Line trolleys after one came off the rails at Packards Corner around 2:10 p.m. Lipistickey surveyed the damage, can only marvel: Whoops.

The trolley was still there at 5 p.m: Read more.

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