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By adamg - 4/28/23 - 5:05 pm

WCVB has video of the center section of a new Type 9 buckling at Boylston the afternoon of Patriots Day, which caused monumental delays in part because some riders were kept on other trolleys for close to an hour. The T says all other Type 9 trolleys passed inspection.

By adamg - 4/28/23 - 4:56 pm

Dan Kennedy reports on a correction the Globe ran today because it turns out three of the MBTA managers it said lived hundreds of miles from here all actually live in Boston - two of them so close to T headquarters in Park Square that they normally walk to work.

By adamg - 4/28/23 - 11:38 am

Transit Police report they are looking for five juveniles they say jumped a woman at Broadway station around 4 p.m. yesterday, stole her bag of groceries, then began throwing items from it at her head. They ran out of the station, the woman had to be transported to a local hospital for facial injuries, police say.

By adamg - 4/28/23 - 10:04 am

This Web site will answer the question immediately (hint, the answer right now involves Betteridge's Law).

By adamg - 4/27/23 - 10:13 am

A bit late, but Paul Schlichtman reports that Arlington Town Meeting voted 169-41-1 last night to: Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 4:13 pm

The MBTA reports one of the exciting-and-new Orange Line trains was held at State Street for about ten minutes so workers could whack the hell out of get a recalcitrant door on one car to work again.

By adamg - 4/24/23 - 3:39 pm

With the first of the 8 p.m. shutdowns of the Blue Line for track work beginning tonight, the MBTA is announcing a series of similar shutdowns on the Red and Green Lines, along with shutdowns on the Orange and Silver Lines, as the T works through all the slow zones that have turned many commutes into something like riding the back of a snail even aside from the reduced service caused by a lack of dispatchers. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/23 - 10:30 am
Dead train at Haymarket

The deceased train. Photo by Peppamint Patty.

The T spent all that money on brand-new Orange Line cars and yet, here we are this morning with a dead brand-new Orange Line train at Haymarket gumming up the works.

At 10:23 a.m., Peppamint Patty reported from the platform, just a few feet away from the dead train: Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/23 - 10:03 am
Damage to Aquarium stop

Remains of windows at Aquarium T stop. Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report arresting an East Boston man they say tried to smash his way into the Aquarium stop on the Blue Line with a chair after learning it was closed at 2:30 a.m. last Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/23 - 9:44 am
Paul Lavin

Gov. Healey announced today she's appointed Patrick Lavin, who has 40 years of experience in subway-safety oversight everywhere from New York to Washington, DC, as MassDOT chief safety officer.
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By adamg - 4/23/23 - 2:18 pm

Update: The Globe issued a correction: Three of the managers actually live in Boston.

The Globe finds more MBTA managers who live hundreds, sometimes, thousands, of miles from the transit system they're supposedly charged with turning around.

By adamg - 4/23/23 - 1:25 pm

The MBTA reports the Green Line is currently running 15 minutes slower inbound than it normally runs slow these days due to signal problems at Copley.

By adamg - 4/21/23 - 4:27 pm
Brush fire as seen from Savin Hill station

View from Savin Hill T stop, Red Line on the right. Photo by HeatherSidre3.

Update, 5:10 p.m.: T says fire extinguished, service to resume.

The MBTA reports even longer than usual delays on the Ashmont branch of the Red Line due to a brush fire near Savin Hill.

By adamg - 4/19/23 - 10:50 pm

The Federal Transit Administration yesterday demanded the MBTA take "immediate action" to correct safety problems it says are still endangering T workers ten months after it issued several urgent directives about safety problems on MBTA subway lines. Read more.

By adamg - 4/19/23 - 9:58 pm

Two 18-year-olds and a younger teen were arrested at Mattapan station Sunday afternoon after they allegedly beat up two men - one who asked them to stop smoking on a trolley and one who tried to break up the fight - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 4/19/23 - 11:36 am
Blue Line issues on a map

MBTA chart.

New MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng said today that although he hopes to have all speed restrictions between Bowdoin and Aquarium on the Blue Line lifted by the end of May, fixing all the track and other problems that keep slowing the line down could take until November to fix. Read more.

By adamg - 4/17/23 - 4:42 pm

One of the MBTA's newest trolleys suffered some sort of catastrophic failure with that swiveling mechanism in the center of the car near Boylston shortly before 3 p.m., jamming up the line on one of its busiest days of the year - and leaving some passengers on other trolleys trapped for an hour or more as T workers tried to get them and the newly dysfunctional trolley safely out of the tunnels. Read more.

By adamg - 4/16/23 - 12:36 pm

Video showing a four-car MBTA commuter-rail train being put through its paces in the Fall River area, using one T locomotive and two engines leased from Larry's Truck and Electric, a McDonald, OH company that specializes in used rail engines and equipment. Read more.

By adamg - 4/14/23 - 5:04 pm
Brush fire around 4:45

Brush fire as seen from the turnpike around 4:45. Photo by Carol Beggy.

WCVB reports firefighters are battling a brush fire near the Worcester Line tracks where Southborough, Westborough and Hopkinton meet, which led to delays of an hour or more on the line.

Yesterday, a smaller brush fire near the Northeast Corridor tracks at Cummins Highway in Roslindale halted service for both Amtrak and the Providence and Franklin lines.

By adamg - 4/14/23 - 11:04 am

Transit Police report arresting a man at Aquarium on the Blue Line last night for allegedly attacking another man who refused to give up his seat. Read more.

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