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By adamg - 4/21/12 - 8:25 am
The MBTA announced today that by this fall, riders should be able to use their smartphones as replacements for their current paper passes.
The T's signed a contract with a British e-ticketing company for a system that will let iPhone, Android and Blackberry users hold up their phones to conductors rather than passes.
The new system means the end of the promise to let riders use CharlieCards on commuter rail. However, riders will be able to link CharlieCards to their smartphone accounts, eliminating the need for paper tickets at connecting subway or bus lines.
By adamg - 4/20/12 - 9:39 am
Police, however, did not buy his story any more than the woman who followed him off the train and held him until the law arrived after she got a glimpse of his junk.
Michael Galvin, 37, of Somerville, was arrested on a charge of open and gross lewdness for an incident on an outbound B trolley around 6:40 p.m. yesterday.
According to police, he exposed his penis to a woman as the trolley approached Packard's Corner:
By adamg - 4/18/12 - 1:48 pm
Takes a look at the new bridge installed over the weekend across the Fairmount Line, instead of piecemeal over the eons, like, oh, that bridge on American Legion Highway over Morton Street.
By adamg - 4/17/12 - 10:08 pm
Matt McGowen likes the commercial, but wonders:
I hope that they don't cause confusion about the MBTA's no seat saving policy.
By adamg - 4/10/12 - 7:56 am
WBZ reports Massport is expected to make a final decision on April 26 on a three-month pilot project.
By adamg - 4/10/12 - 7:32 am
In advance of a visit by the Brazilian president today, the Secret Service no less ordered Occupy MBTA evicted from the State House steps last night. State Police provided some trucks so the protesters could move their stuff; they'll be allowed back today after the departure of Dilma Rousseff, her eyes protected from the sight of Americans clinging to the quaint idea they have a right to peacefully assemble.
By adamg - 4/9/12 - 7:19 pm
Firefighters quickly knocked down a fire in an escalator at the Government Center T stop shortly after 7 p.m., but heavy smoke forced them to evacuate everybody from the station and ask the MBTA to have Green Line trolleys bypass the stop until the smoke could be cleared.
By adamg - 4/9/12 - 9:19 am
A delayed citizen asks why the T can't have two card readers on every bus - one for normal people and one for the first-in-liners whose CharlieCards come up empty. The city will no doubt forward this to the T.
Ed. note: A couple weeks ago at Washington and Cornell in Roslindale, I saw a most amazing thing - a guy waved other people onto the bus before him because he knew he had to add more value to his card and he didn't want to hold everybody up. You go, good sir!
By adamg - 4/9/12 - 7:22 am
The Globe reports the T is halting the sale of 12-ride punch tickets good for six months because too many people were managing to get extra rides out of them. They'll be replaced with 10-ride tickets good for just a month.
By adamg - 4/8/12 - 12:17 pm
On the B line, that starts somewhere between Copley and Hynes, Five Thousand Words a Day reports:
The change is far from gradual, yet you never notice it until you look up and see that the quite nuclear family from Rhode Island has been replaced by a conspicuous gaggle of 12-15 bros who have taken pre gaming to a new level.
By adamg - 4/7/12 - 11:09 am
Liam considers the future of the area around the Forest Hills T stop after the Casey Overhulk comes down:
By adamg - 4/6/12 - 4:56 pm
A Medford man and his Winthrop girlfriend were arraigned today on charges of armed assault with intent to murder for a March 24 incident on the Blue Line that left a rider unconscious and with serious injuries that might have been even worse if the man had managed to get access to his knife, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
By adamg - 4/4/12 - 3:49 pm
The MBTA board agreed today to fare hikes and some service cuts starting July 1, the Globe reports.
By adamg - 4/4/12 - 9:06 am
Firefighters responded to a fire on the tracks between Downtown Crossing and Park Street reported around 9 a.m.
Power, of course, had to be shut off to let firefighters onto the tracks, causing delays for riders. The T rolled out shuttle buses for the trip between JFK and Harvard.
The Boston Fire Department reports some trash near some switching equipment caught fire.
By adamg - 4/2/12 - 8:20 am
Why does this make me think of bacon strips?
PETA has asked the T for permission to hang snakes from subway grab bars as a way to convince people not to buy snakeskin purses or something, but says it'll hang snakes even if the T says no. Ball's in your court, MBTA: Will you charge PETA $650 per snake?
UPDATE: The MBTA's Joe Pesaturo says:
By adamg - 4/1/12 - 9:56 pm
The Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership has posted this video along with other photos and renderings of the proposed stops along the fabled Green Line extension.
By adamg - 4/1/12 - 10:40 am
Tom Bruno breaks the news:
MBTA counts loose change dropped onto subway tracks, announces $133.4 Billion surplus.
He adds that to avoid the 9.8% fee at the local CoinStar machine, they opted for a Stop & Shop gift card.
By adamg - 3/31/12 - 1:54 pm
A trash fire on the tracks just before Chinatown outbound around 1:40 p.m. shut service to Forest Hills. MBTA workers extinguished the fire themselves, but Boston firefighters went into the tunnel to take a look.
The last major trash fire near the Chinatown stop was almost exactly a year ago.
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