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By adamg - 10/15/12 - 9:46 am

A Minnesota visitor who fell on the Red Line tracks at Kendall Square last night was helped out by other passengers, the MBTA reports. According to an MBTA Transit Police report on the incident, shortly before 7 p.m.:

By adamg - 10/12/12 - 8:29 pm

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Maynard man on charges he indecently assaulted a woman - twice - on an inbound Red Line train around 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 3 after the train left Charles/MGH.

Ashish Mittal, 38, was arrested yesterday on a charge of indecent assault and battery, police say.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 10/11/12 - 3:42 pm

Man wanted MBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a man who allegedly slapped and spit at a bus driver for passing him by.

Police report the route-428 driver was attacked around 6:30 p.m. yesterday at Main and Forest streets in Malden. They provide this account:

By adamg - 10/11/12 - 12:53 pm

SpitterMBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a man who spit at a T bus driver around 2:30 p.m. on Oct.

By adamg - 10/11/12 - 9:46 am

MBTA Transit Police report that when they asked Dennis Banks what he was doing inside a stairway in a building at the Arborway bus depot yesterday evening,

Banks replied he was "taking a s***" or better stated Banks claimed he was going to the bathroom on the stairs.

Then officers noticed "a freshly cut four foot section of half inch copper resting on a back pack." A quick survey revealed the pipe would have fit exactly in a four-foot gap in a section of pipe on the wall:

By adamg - 10/9/12 - 1:30 pm

Boston to a T considers yesterday's Brigham Circle trolley-vs-trolley incident.

By adamg - 10/9/12 - 1:25 pm

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Boston man for allegedly masturbating in full view of other Orange Line riders from Oak Grove to about Wellington, around 4:45 p.m. on Saturday.

Guy's scheduled for arraignment today on a charge of lewd, wanton and lascivious conduct.

By adamg - 10/8/12 - 7:13 pm

Harvard Square turkey

ChinatownKicks watched this turkey in Harvard Square yesterday.

By adamg - 10/8/12 - 4:14 pm

Collision scene. Photo by Michelle Murray.Collision scene. Photo by Michelle Murray.

By adamg - 10/4/12 - 6:37 am

Elise Ramsay says goodbye to the guy who gave her a copy of the Metro every morning at the Davis Square T stop:

By adamg - 10/2/12 - 10:29 pm

UPDATE: Boston Metro eulogizes Tagliaferro.

Earlier today, Anthea noted the absence of the normal Metro guy at the Davis Square T stop for the past two days. The Somerville Journal tonight posts a photo of a simple sign posted in the T stop:

In memory of David J. Tagliaferro, 1945-2012. Rest in peace, David, you will be missed.

By adamg - 10/2/12 - 7:56 pm

Three trains died on the Red Line between 4:30 and 7 p.m. today.

By adamg - 9/29/12 - 9:38 am

Green Line trolley on the turnpike

Roving UHub photographer Will Bussiere was roving all the way out in Charlton yesterday when he spotted a Green Line trolley on the back of a flatbed on the turnpike. No clue why.

Earlier:

By adamg - 9/28/12 - 7:35 am

The Jamaica Plain Gazette gets action - and dishes that bus drivers have a button they can press that automatically generates a report to MBTA Transit Police about bus stops filled with delivery trucks or other vehicles.

By adamg - 9/27/12 - 12:42 pm

The state auditor's office today released a report that found a nearly $102-million discrepancy over five years between the cash the MBTA actually took in through fare boxes on buses and trolleys and the amount those boxes said they were fed.

The MBTA said that simply reflects software issues, not massive amounts of theft or money rolling behind driver's seats, and the auditor's office says that's possible, but there's currently no way to know for sure:

By adamg - 9/27/12 - 10:08 am

The Globe reports the alleged butterfingers was packing a loaded gun on an outbound trolley just before Newton Centre; a rider dropped a dime and police arrested him and three pals.

By adamg - 9/27/12 - 6:25 am

The Herald reports a Lowell man arrested as an unregistered sex offender at Forest Hills the other day after somebody complained about him taking pictures of little kids turns out not to have a record as a sex offender. As a convicted stabber and prison-guard attacker, yes, but he was released in April after having served his time for those, the Herald writes.

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