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By adamg - 11/10/11 - 6:41 am

CommonWealth reports the MBTA settled a lawsuit against the company that made defective ties on South Shore commuter-rail tracks for just $6 million, which means the T will have to eat roughly $85 million in replacement costs.

By adamg - 11/8/11 - 8:23 am

Bostonography visualizes whirled peas 24 hours of bus-speed data, which, if you're really into SimCity, will remind you of a big city's traffic-congestion map, and which, if you're not, can just be appreciated as a really cool piece of art.

By adamg - 11/7/11 - 10:37 pm

Tarik Muhammad didn't want any company on his trip out of Ruggles on Aug. 31, 2010, so when a man sat next to him, he told him to move - and when the man refused, they got into an argument that ended when Muhammad began beating and stabbing him, prosecutors say. Channel 4 has the surveillance video shown in court today.

By adamg - 11/7/11 - 4:03 pm

Daisy Razor reports on some attempted flirting on the Riverside Line today.

By adamg - 11/4/11 - 1:45 pm

Video of confrontation between the driver of a 101 bus out of Sullivan and the preacher who refused to shut up.

By adamg - 11/4/11 - 10:31 am

Channel 5 reports MBTA Transit Police will start collecting saliva spit at T workers to analyze the DNA as an aid to convicting the spitters. The T says 20 workers got spit at last year.

By adamg - 11/4/11 - 6:24 am

Snow delays nothing new in Boston: Stuck trolley in Uphams Corner, 1930.Snow delays nothing new in Boston: Stuck trolley in Uphams Corner, 1930.

The Globe reports the T will run fewer trains on snow days this winter, in an effort to give crews a better chance at dealing with snow and ice when the weather outside is frightful. They even have a new Web page to let you know about winter cancellations - which will be on both subway and commuter-rail lines.

Snowy wreck in Readville, 1931.Snowy wreck in Readville, 1931.

Photos of trolley and train from the BPL Leslie Jones collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.

By adamg - 11/3/11 - 7:52 pm

Well, bushy tailed, at any rate:

By adamg - 11/2/11 - 8:03 pm

Got on the Orange Line to Forest Hills at Downtown Crossing at rush hour today and Angry Screaming Driver was in fine form, yelling at some woman who apparently didn't like the car she was in and ran to another. Then, at Chinatown, ASD kept it up:

Ma'am, you in the black dress, STOP RUNNING FROM CAR TO CAR! YOU'RE HOLDING UP THE TRAIN!

By the time we got to Tufts Medical Center, the black-dress lady had apparently learned her lesson, but the driver was still so mad she screamed out "TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER!" like an insult.

By adamg - 10/31/11 - 4:58 pm

Gumby on the Red Line

Poor Gumby. Gets on the Red Line and nobody pays him any attention, except for Courtney Burns, who took this photo.

By adamg - 10/31/11 - 8:40 am

A concerned citizen posts a photo of a big fat tour bus parked at a T bus stop:

Yet another tour bus illegally parked in a city bus stop, causing city bus to double park and disembark passengers in the middle of the street! Please do something about this. We just went to a meeting at City Hall regarding this matter. The Leather District is NOT a bus depot!

By adamg - 10/30/11 - 6:05 pm

The MBTA reports that commuters on the Worcester, Fitchburg and Haverhill lines should expect delays tomorrow morning due to storm damage.

By adamg - 10/29/11 - 11:09 am

Car on tracks on Comm. Ave.

A roving UHub photographer didn't have to rove very far last night - he went to his window - to take this shot of the Green Line tracks:

By adamg - 10/29/11 - 10:52 am

Check out this photo by Al Willis of the line for a shuttle bus. The T is bustituting between Kendall and Broadway to allow for installation of a new elevator at Park Street.

By adamg - 10/26/11 - 2:31 pm

The MassInc think tank explains why the state should look at dedicated payroll or even gas taxes to help fund both the MBTA and the state's other regional public-transit systems. The report says the cost per person would be small and would help increase support for public transportation in the 60% of the state whose residents don't live in the MBTA district yet who help fund it anyway through a portion of the sales tax.

By adamg - 10/26/11 - 8:50 am

Transportation Secretary Richard Davey was scheduled to speak this morning at a forum sponsored by MassInc called Moving Forward with Funding: New strategies to support transportation and balanced regional economic growth.

Aimee Ward of MassInc tweets Davey was late because of delays on the Red Line.

By adamg - 10/25/11 - 8:34 pm

It seems like only yesterday that the T shut down service past North Station, doesn't it? The T reports trolley service all the way to Lechmere is scheduled to resume the weekend of Nov. 5.

By adamg - 10/25/11 - 12:03 pm

So the T can install an elevator at Park Street. Look for shuttle buses instead.

The T says Green Line service through Park Street will be unaffected.

By adamg - 10/24/11 - 1:05 pm

Boston World Partnerships is planning a rolling networking event on the Red Line this Thursday: They're going to use the last car of the first inbound train out of JFK/UMass after 1 p.m. for a meet 'n' greet:

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