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Workers repairing Green Line tracks in Brookline had a little extra work last night

By adamg - 10/23/11 - 8:14 am

They had to remove the car that wound up on the tracks near St. Paul on the C line.

Track fire under a train at Park Street

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.

No Red Line north of Harvard on weekends

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:

The bus driver and the blind woman

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?"

Somerville gets green line

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.

20-year struggle by Dorchester activists ends tomorrow at Ashmont

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.

Silver Line stats show Southie surge

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.

And with any luck, his name isn't Jason

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.

When you've already got lots of outstanding warrants, what's a little fare jumping?

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.

T to riders: A little courtesy won't kill you

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!

What's wrong with the Silver Line?

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

A lot, a Suffolk professor writes.

Fire at Kenmore stops Green Line service

By adamg - 10/9/11 - 6:21 pm

An electrical fire in a utility room at the station means no service on the B, C and D lines, Local 718 reports.

Finally: South Station to get a Dunkin' Donuts

By adamg - 10/7/11 - 4:43 pm

A Dunkin' Donuts franchisee goes before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday, Oct. 19, for permission to open an outlet in the station's food court. Currently, commuters have to walk all the way across Atlantic Avenue or struggle to make their way to Federal Street to get their fix.

Our decaying infrastructure: T rider almost beaned by plunging fluorescent light

By adamg - 10/7/11 - 10:05 am

Remains ot the lightRemains of the tube. Photo by Lalunkee.

Lalunkee tweets:

Fluorescent tube at Comm. College Station nearly landed on my head, hit the ground and exploded.

Riverside T stop shut after discovery of suspicious package

By adamg - 10/7/11 - 8:51 am

In addition to evacuating the trolley station, police also got people out of the parking lot of the office building next to the station.

UPDATE: Carl Stevens at WBZ tweets:

Riverside MBTA stop closed because of a coffee maker.

Go figure: There really is a reason the T warns you not to lean against doors

By adamg - 10/6/11 - 6:43 pm

James Harvey tweeted around 5:30 p.m.:

Just had the Red Line doors open in the middle of the Longfellow Bridge.

Eric Steinhardt, apparently on the same train, reports the doors stayed open only very briefly, not even long enough for him to jump out.

Robin Hood rides the Green Line, of course

By adamg - 10/6/11 - 8:34 am

Grant MacElhiney tweeted this morning:

There's a guy with a crossbow on the Green Line, car 3635 #SeeSomethingSaySomething #PleaseReportAnySuspiciousActivity

But he switched at Park Street to the Red Line, from which he departed at Harvard, Margaret Peachy tweeted.

Cell service coming to all T stops, tunnels, but not all cell users will have coverage

By adamg - 10/5/11 - 8:54 am

The Daily Free Press reports the company that's built cell antennas along the Red and Orange lines is extending the service to the underground portions of the Green and Blue lines.

Unlike Penelope, at least this pet was on a leash

By adamg - 10/3/11 - 4:07 pm

Elizabeth DiRusso posts a photo of a woman and her ferret at the Back Bay Orange Line station, adds:

It would probably be safer if the ferret stood behind the yellow line.

Meanwhile, and totally unrelated, except it also happened at an Orange Line stop, Andrea reports:

Some guy at Sullivan Station just turned into a corner and starting peeing 2 feet away from me.

An MBTA menagerie: Cats, hawks, parrots, turkeys, pet rats, pigeons, snakes.

Alleged thigh groper arrested on a 23 bus

By adamg - 10/3/11 - 4:03 pm

Beaton A Roslindale man was pulled off a 23 bus and arrested on indecent assault and battery charges Friday after he allegedly moved his hand up the thigh of a woman sitting next to him.

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