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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:

By WickedPissah - 10/23/11 - 8:39 pm

Everyone can agree that the economy is rough. This holiday season, more than usual, is important to local retailers. Small businesses in Porter and Davis squares now have another hurdle to deal with starting November 5th, no red line service on the weekends. The residents probably aren't happy about it either.

By adamg - 10/22/11 - 6:06 pm

The scene at Park Street. Photo by Patrick Munnelly.The scene at Park Street. Photo by Patrick Munnelly.

By BostonUrbEx - 10/22/11 - 10:32 am

Recently, if you look out the windows on the Red Line between Harvard and Porter, you'll almost always find workers pressing against the wall to let a train by. In case the water-stained tunnel walls don't give it away: they're working on the corroded tracks as we speak. However, that may not be enough time to keep the tunnels in shape, and as The Globe explains:

By adamg - 10/21/11 - 6:24 am

Maggie reports on 93 bus driver 69999, one of whose passengers yesterday afternoon was blind and who asked him to let her know when they got to her stop - only he didn't, which led to this exchange:

Operator #69999 replied "Well I stopped and you didn't get off."

Andrea: "You didn't tell me."

Operator #69999: "Was I supposed to pick you up and carry you off?"

By adamg - 10/20/11 - 11:01 pm

Granted, it was made of paper, but no matter: Local residents and officials held a mock groundbreaking tonight for the Green Line extension, now scheduled to arrive in Somerville sometime over the next century or so. The Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership posts photos.

By adamg - 10/20/11 - 10:51 am

The new Ashmont T stop will be formally dedicated at 3 p.m. tomorrow. The Dorchester Reporter reviews the struggle to get the state to do something about Ashmont-line stations, once the worst in the entire T system.

By adamg - 10/19/11 - 10:38 am

These stats just in from the T for the South Boston end of the Silver Line for January through August:

  • Total annual year-to-date ridership up 7.0% from 3,148,612 in 2010 to 3,368,580 in 2011.
  • Average weekday ridership up 5.7% from 15,015 in 2010 to 15,877 in 2011.
  • Average Saturday ridership up 67.3% from 5,550 in 2010 to 9,285 in 2011.
  • Average Sunday ridership up 8.0% from 8,422 in 2010 to 9,098 in 2011.
By adamg - 10/17/11 - 9:39 am

J posts a photo of a guy on the Red Line with an electric chainsaw this morning:

No extension cord, so I think we are safe.

By adamg - 10/14/11 - 9:56 am

Alleged evasion starts around 0:35.

MBTA Transit Police report a man spotted piggybacking another passenger through the fare gates at Central Square yesterday turned out to be wanted in Boston, Lynn, Malden and Cambridge on a variety of warrants.

By adamg - 10/12/11 - 10:14 am

Crowd waits for people to leave train

The MBTA is starting a new courtesy campaign, via placards that urge people to be a kinder, gentler ridership. Will it work?

The campaign follows the T's no groping and no littering campaigns.

General Manager Jonathan Davis - a daily MBTA user - asked the T's Marketing Department to develop a new campaign to encourage courteous and polite behavior on trains and buses.

See all five placards.

Shaddup!

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

A lot, a Suffolk professor writes.

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