Nancy Parker, 53, will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court today on charges she faked an attack on her MBTA bus in Chelsea, then collected worker's compensation.
Parker, of Burlington, is formally charged with worker's compensation fraud, misleading an investigator and filing a false report for the Oct. 2, 2007 incident on a 111 bus, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The T fired her after they learned of discrepancies in her claim, the DA's office says.
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports the station will be completely replaced by the spring of 2014 and that work to begin later this year will mean the station will be shut for six months and that buses will replace trains past Airport on weekends for four months.
KaneA conductor on the Old Colony Line confronted a man he says stole another rider's wallet - and got him to turn over the woman's wallet and money.
Steven Kane, 34, of Bridgewater, was arrested on a charge of larceny from a person around 5 p.m. yesterday at the Lakeville/Middleboro commuter-rail stop, the MBTA reports. According to the T, a 53-year-old woman awoke from a nap as the train pulled into the station and noticed her purse was open and her wallet gone. A woman sitting behind her pointed to Kane:
The MBTA will ban alcohol ads in stations and on trains and buses starting July 1, the Globe reports.
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Fall River couple on charges they stole catalytic converters off cars parking in commuter lots in Hanson and Halifax last night.
Dennis and Tina Fager, 39 and 37, were only charged with the three catalytic converters police found them with, but said they could be responsible for as many as 100 converter grabs on the South Shore.
Police say detectives who had staked out the Hanson commuter-rail parking lot due to a spate of recent converter thefts spotted the couple drive into the lot around 4:15 p.m. yesterday, just after an inbound train departed the station:
WBUR reports on packed hearings yesterday on the state's plans to cut service and raise fares on the MBTA:
There appears little support on Beacon Hill for a funding alternative to the fare hikes and service cuts.
Don't look to Deval Patrick for any leadership on the issue: His state of the state address didn't mention the T crisis once, unless you count a glancing reference to our "crumbling infrastructure."
T ad campaign that started last year.
Ed. note: Percentage adjusted due to error in figures originally provided by the T.
Latest crime stats from the MBTA show that property crimes, such as larceny, increased 26% on the regional transportation system in 2011 over the year before.
Smart phones, bicycles and catalytic converters on cars parked in station lots account for much of the increase, the T says in a statement:
A roving UHub tweeter forwarded this Twitter screen capture during the pre-game show today. Needless to say, the tweet is no longer online.
The MBTA starts a series of public meetings on Tuesday to let the public vent helplessly pipe up about plans to cut a number of bus lines, all ferry service, weekend and post-10 p.m. commuter rail service and the E line on weekends.
The T says it also wants to hear from commuters on its plans to raise fares by at least 35% to help make up a $160 million projected shortfall in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today an alleged Red Line groper's admission to police can't be used against him because he gave it after shaking his head no after his arrest when asked if he wanted to talk to police.
Brandon Clarke was arrested by MBTA Transit Police in 2008 on charges he groped a man on an outbound Braintree train. After he "shook his head back and forth in a negative fashion," an MBTA detective kept asking him if he was sure and, eventually, he gave an incriminating statement.
Edited to reflect fact incident was on commuter rail, not Orange Line.
Jessica Keener reports on an incident shortly before 10 a.m. on the outbound side at Back Bay station:
My husband + 3 others just pulled a blind man who fell down into the train tracks + saved this man's life in Boston today!!!!
Not long after, she tweeted at acting MBTA General Manager Jonathan Davis:
My husband & 3 other men saved a man from Back Bay train tracks. No MBTA people were there. Why not???
It's a wonder nobody thought of this before: Mr. mbTa:
Train delays?! bettah make 'em go faster, I got fools to pity!
Quit yo chattin' on yo cellular device. Nobody cares whatcha did last night, fool.
When fare increases go up, so does my tempah, fool!
The state Department of Transportation and the city of Boston today announced a competition for applications that let users navigate between the T and the Hubway bike system and find the location of the nearest food trucks.
State and city officials are hoping the real-time MBTA and Hubway data, coupled with information about food trucks, will lead to the same sorts of applications that emerged after a similar competition in 2009, then based just on data for certain bus routes.
Channel 25 reports MBTA officials are investigating a photo by a channel viewer that appears to show a T worker asleep at Wollaston during rush hour yesterday.
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