WCVB reports maintenance equipment derailed on the Blue Line yesterday and on the Red Line today.
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By adamg - 4/10/23 - 4:54 pm
A couple of dogs jumped into the Charles River at Millennium Park this afternoon just as an inbound Needham Line train was coming through.
By adamg - 4/10/23 - 9:49 am
Neal noticed an interesting request marked on a wheelchair "bridge plate" at the Amtrak/commuter-rail platform at Back Bay.
By adamg - 4/7/23 - 9:34 am
The MBTA today switched to a new mode on the arrival boards at terminal stations and stops near them: Instead of telling riders when the next two trains should arrive, signs now just tell them how often trains are currently running. Read more.
By adamg - 4/5/23 - 4:10 pm
The MBTA reports Green Line service is now back to the new-normal regular delays now that it's done something about the dead trolley that was gumming up the works at Copley.
By adamg - 4/5/23 - 1:21 pm
John "Big John" Pigsley, the assistant chief engineer for Keolis Commuter Services, which runs the MBTA's commuter-rail system, was arrested today on charges he funneled millions of dollars to a friend's company - and his own Pigman Group concern - for equipment and services never provided to the system but which instead helped pay for extensive renovations to Pigsley's homes in Beverly and Vermont. Read more.
By adamg - 4/3/23 - 2:22 pm
The MBTA announced today it will start offering a $7,500 bonus to qualified candidates for a variety of jobs starting April 15. Read more.
By adamg - 4/3/23 - 12:51 pm
Transit Police report arresting a Belmont man they say bit an officer hard enough to break his skin in a failed attempt to escape arrest on charges he was harassing and exposing himself to other passengers at the Harvard Square Red Line station around 3 p.m. yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 4/3/23 - 9:56 am
Ed. note: Google Maps says it would take 99 minutes to walk from Ashmont to the Pru.
That girl that likes planez chronicled her commute this morning, starting at 7:51 a.m., when, she reported, she was sitting on a Red Line train at Ashmont six minutes after she boarded it: Read more.
By adamg - 4/2/23 - 12:15 pm
WFXT reports two men got into a fight shortly after 6 a.m. at the Ashmont T station, which one man ended by plunging a knife into the other man's shoulder. He was then arrested.
By adamg - 4/1/23 - 3:12 pm
The T reports a train out of Newburyport is at least an hour late getting to North Station because it's developed one of those embarrassing mechanical issues somewhere near Swampscott. A train out of Rockport, meanwhile, is 15 to 25 minutes late because of signal problems between Beverly and North Station, the T reports.
By adamg - 4/1/23 - 12:18 pm
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about the intersection where the main part of Commonwealth Avenue outbound, the Comm. Ave. carriage lane and Kelton Street all come together at a sharp curve right atop the Green Line tracks: Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/23 - 3:49 pm
The MBTA reports Green Line delays of up to 20minutes due to a trolley with a broken door at Government Center. This is atop issues caused by a track problem at Haymarket, on top of the problems caused by all the slow zones and the lack of dispatchers.
By adamg - 3/30/23 - 10:39 am
Man in act of kicking somebody onto train tracks. Surveillance photos via TPD.
By adamg - 3/29/23 - 11:24 pm
The Globe reports the T won't say if the guy was fired - just days before the new general manager was named - but says he is no longer supervising anything for the T from his homes in Hawaii and Delaware, among other places that are nowhere near the MBTA service area.
By adamg - 3/29/23 - 5:31 pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police are investigating how the driver of a shuttle bus got stabbed in an incident that appears to have started on Washington Street at Archdale Road in Roslindale and ended in a parking lot just south of Ukraine Way. Read more.
By adamg - 3/29/23 - 9:59 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports the T has added a couple million dollars to its 2024-2028 capital plan to hire a consultant to look at redesigning JFK/UMass, where one entrance had to be shut for four months and where a man fell to his death on a stairway missing stairs that had never been removed despite being marked as unsafe.
By adamg - 3/28/23 - 9:50 am
Transit Police report that early Sunday, a man plowed into the cement-anchored sign at one of the Hyde Park Avenue parking lots at the Readville commuter-rail stop, called an Uber and then left the destroyed remains of his car behind.
Police say they tracked down the man and will charge him with leaving the scene of an accident.
By adamg - 3/27/23 - 3:58 pm
New MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng said today he's looking forward to the challenge of righting a transit system falling apart at the seams, with massive delays due to track problems, other safety issues and inadequate staffing caused by decades of disinvestment in the system. Read more.
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