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By adamg - 6/19/12 - 8:05 am

Around 8:15 p.m. yesterday, Rachel Zarrell spotted Sob Story Guy getting on the Orange Line at Chinatown:

Needed money to get to Worcester to "treat his staph infection." Was pretty gross.

But by 11, he'd either gotten it looked at or had just become resigned to it. Colin Steele reported from the Red Line near Harvard:

No story this time, just "anybody? Anybody?"

By adamg - 6/18/12 - 4:59 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports the T has some space in several stations (Back Bay, Forest Hills, Harvard, Alewife, North Station, South Station, Airport and Malden Center) it's looking to rent for retail use.

The Journal notes there are several prohibited uses, including the sale of tobacco, scratch tickets and popcorn.

Popcorn? T spokesman Joe Pesaturo says the T has had enough with popcorn because it attracts pigeons and "too much of it ends up on seats and floors of subway cars."

By adamg - 6/18/12 - 10:09 am

Signal problems at JFK/UMass are continuing to mess up the commute long past the morning rush. Levi Haynes tweets it took 90 minutes to get from Quincy Center to Kendall.

By adamg - 6/17/12 - 10:47 am

Yesterday at Park Street (start around 1:25 to see the fare-evasion action). Didn't appear to be any CSAs or transit cops to make a stand against the roughly 50 Occupy MBTA protesters.

By adamg - 6/14/12 - 2:46 pm

Leroy "Hitman" Martin, 34, of Brighton, was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail at his arraignment on a variety of charges related to a high-chase from Revere to Cambridge that ended with him under arrest in the Kendall Square T stop.

By adamg - 6/14/12 - 2:24 pm

Firefighters rushed to North Station around 1:40 p.m. today on reports of flames shooting out of an exhaust stack on an MBCR commuter-rail engine on track 1. After initial efforts to douse the flames, MBTA engineers advised firefighters to back away in case the engine exploded. At one point, the Boston Fire Department reports:

The area of the engine and the stack rising from the engine were bright red from heat.

Around 2:20 p.m., the department declared the fire out. Firefighters continued to pour water on the diesel, however, to keep it cool.

By adamg - 6/14/12 - 2:08 pm

AlertNewEngland reports a large pile of paper on Red Line tracks near Harvard Square burst into flames around 1:40 p.m., forcing a shutdown of train service so Cambridge firefighters could douse the fire. The T shut all service north of Harvard and terminated service on the other side at Park Street.

By adamg - 6/14/12 - 8:04 am

The T just can't catch a break.

By adamg - 6/13/12 - 7:18 pm

Ari Rizzitano explains:

When headed north on the Green Line, waiting for a Lechmere train is like waiting for the skinny Tetris block.

By adamg - 6/13/12 - 5:49 pm

Remains of the break, Photo by BFD.Remains of the break. Photo by BFD.

By adamg - 6/13/12 - 5:05 pm

A car chase that started on the Tobin Bridge this afternoon ended in Kendall Square after a state trooper fired at the alleged suspect, who drove away only to crash his car on the other side of the Longfellow, got out of the car, boarded the Red Line at Charles/MGH and then was pulled off the train at Kendall by waiting state troopers.

Although witnesses saw two men being led out of Kendall in handcuffs, only one is being charged - Leroy Martin, 34, of Brighton - State Police say.

By adamg - 6/13/12 - 10:41 am

The MBTA is outlining a series of changes to the 39 route from Forest Hills to just before Back Bay it says will mean shorter commutes for riders on the system's second-busiest bus route.

Among them: Eliminating one out of every five stops and looking at new locations for some of the remaining ones. Also proposed are changes to the traffic signals at Monument Square in Jamaica Plain.

By adamg - 6/12/12 - 5:45 am

MBTA Transit Police report a man who "suddenly entered" the tracks at Maverick shortly before service ended early this morning died. Police say he was white, 47.

By adamg - 6/11/12 - 8:46 am

Mayors and other civic leaders meet at South Station today to call for "statewide investment to build the 21st century transportation system Massachusetts needs." The conclave convenes at 2 p.m. in the station's mezzanine level.

Meanwhile, the T is getting ready with a bunch of bus-line cutbacks should the legislature not come through with $51 million for the 20th-century transportation system the Boston area uses today by July 1.

By adamg - 6/9/12 - 8:57 am

JP Patch takes a look at how the story of a little girl, her stuffed bunny and the MBTA went national

By adamg - 6/8/12 - 6:53 pm

Giant crowds of people, shuttle buses, the whole nine yards due to what Alert New England reports was a track fire shortly after 6 p.m. at Fields Corner.

By adamg - 6/8/12 - 9:23 am

Dukakis on the T

Our roving UHub photographer assures us that's Mike Dukakis getting onto a crowded Green Line trolley at Longwood this morning - just like he used to do when he was governor.

By adamg - 6/7/12 - 2:06 pm

Joe Pesaturo at the MBTA reports:

By adamg - 6/7/12 - 10:17 am

New Balance will pay to build and maintain a Worcester Line stop off Everett Street as part of a deal with the state Department of Transportation.

New Balance is planning a $500-million development off Guest Street that will include offices, a hotel, a sports complex and stores.

The stop will be called New Brighton Landing. A construction date has yet to be set. Brighton and Allston both once had train stops, both lost service decades ago.

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