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By adamg - 8/22/12 - 6:52 pm

Julie Burdan puts the question many have been thinking this summer:

Can someone please explain the phenomenon of people not wearing shoes on the T?

By adamg - 8/22/12 - 10:44 am
Charlie on a Swan Boat
Charlie's suit

Charlie came to life today, ambling about town to promote Charlie Cards and the new air-conditioned Charlie service center at Downtown Crossing.

By adamg - 8/21/12 - 4:40 pm

Trains are dead in Revere thanks to a downed wire, so that that means busing between Orient Heights and Wonderland - and a chance for passengers stuck near Revere Beach to get a first-hand taste of how the Revere Fire Department evacuates people from trains. Expect, as they say, significant delays.

By adamg - 8/20/12 - 8:47 am

WBUR explains the delays on the Newburyport/Rockport line this morning.

By adamg - 8/18/12 - 10:30 pm

Bit of a problem at Eliot on the Riverside Line tonight, where wires have come down, trapping a train, Brian D'Amico reports. Buses to the rescue, the T says.

By adamg - 8/17/12 - 9:06 am

TaylorMBTA Transit Police report a man they initially intended to just ticket for drinking a malt beverage and smoking a cigarette at Forest Hills last night found himself under arrest when they discovered he was wanted in Chelsea for assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault.

According to a police report, around 9:30 p.m., an officer making a routine swing through the area around the 39 bus berth under the overpass noticed:

[A] male party, later identified as Ronaldo Taylor, sitting on a retaining wall behind the Inspector's booth. I approached Taylor to see what he was doing. As I was approaching him, I observed he had an open container of a 40 ounce malt beverage and he was smoking a cigarette.

By adamg - 8/15/12 - 2:08 pm

The MBTA evacuated Alewife, stopped the Red Line at Davis and brought in explosives-detection equipment this afternoon after workers discovered a suspicious package on a Red Line train.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo reports the device turned out to be "a ticketing device used by city of Cambridge parking-enforcement officers."

"Better safe than really sorry," Cambridge City Councilor Minka vanBeuzekom tweets.

By adamg - 8/15/12 - 9:55 am

Via BostInno.

Hyde Park Avenue by Forest Hills station was tire high, one commuter reported, but the station itself had only the usual mini-torrents that come with pretty much any rain storm.

By adamg - 8/15/12 - 7:47 am

New sign at South Station. Photo by MBTA.New sign at South Station. Photo by MBTA.

By adamg - 8/14/12 - 8:25 pm

BostInno reports on the ever slipping schedule for 75 new double-decker coaches for commuter rail. The Korean vendor blames US regulations, which apparently it didn't bother to consult before winning a bid to build the cars.

By adamg - 8/14/12 - 10:14 am

An incensed citizen posts a photo of a couple of obscene drawings at the Roslindale Square commuter-rail stop, one of which also has a text explanation, in case you couldn't figure out what the artist was trying to draw.

By adamg - 8/14/12 - 9:20 am

MBTA Transit Police report an outbound train derailed a bit in Belmont Center. MBTA and Belmont Police helped passengers off the train and back to the station to await buses to take them the rest of the way. "NO INJURIES," Transit Police tweeted.

Channel 25 reports T officials called the wheel slipping off the track "a relatively minor incident."

By adamg - 8/14/12 - 8:36 am
Car on Green Line tracks

Photo via MBTA.

UPDATE: Seems to be a national epidemic.

The MBTA reports a woman who says she was only following her GPS's directions wound up stuck on Green Line trolley tracks in Brookline early Monday.

According to MBTA Transit Police, a South Attleboro resident was driving in Brookline shortly after 1 a.m. on Monday when she consulted her GPS to see what she should do next:

By adamg - 8/13/12 - 11:22 am

Newton Patch reports police are looking for a guy who allegedly slapped a cell phone out of man's hands on the Riverside line this morning - and slapped his face for good measure. The phone slapper then bounded out of the train.

By adamg - 8/13/12 - 8:44 am

Major flustercluck on the Green Line this morning thanks to a "track problem" somewhere between Kenmore and Park that the T said meant only 15-minute delays, but which actual riders tweeted were more like an hour - when they could get on a packed train at all, which people actually on those packed trains emphasized might not be much of a blessing, given how the T seemed to have rolled out its fleet of trolleys without air conditioning this morning.

At 8:39, Katherine Bragg tweeted:

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