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By adamg - 9/13/11 - 4:23 pm

The MBTA just reported:

Blue Line. Expect significant delays due to a wire problem. Seek alternative transportation where possible.

The Blue Line sure seems to have a lot of wire problems.

By adamg - 9/13/11 - 7:15 am

Felicia likes to look around as she rides the trolley and imagine which people would fill which roles:

Sometimes I get lucky and there's a Sayid– or even better, a Sawyer/Sayid combo.

Other times I hope the clunky Green line keeps it together until I get home, 'cause I don’t want to be stuck in THAT storyline.

By adamg - 9/10/11 - 7:41 pm

The MBTA announces that all subway trains will pull into stations and stand by at 8:46 for a 9/11 moment of silence.

By adamg - 9/10/11 - 6:27 pm

Blue Line evacuation

Joel Barciauskas photographed Blue Line passengers being evacuated at Orient Heights late this afternoon. The T blames "wire problems."

By adamg - 9/10/11 - 5:54 pm

Adam Weiss reports a T worker at State Street ordered him to put away his camera "because of 9/11."

Weiss adds it was one of the orange vests, not a T cop, and that he would have tried to explain the T's photo policy, but his train was pulling in.

By adamg - 9/9/11 - 3:08 pm

LoJack reports MBTA Transit Police used the human version of its tracking system to find an East Boston teen with a predilection for wandering away from home and school to ride the rails underneath Boston.

The company says yesterday's safe return marks the first successful use of its SafetyNet Service since it was introduced in Boston in January:

By adamg - 9/7/11 - 5:00 pm

AlertNewEngland reports the TD Bank in Central Square was held up around 4:30 p.m. And since T-riding bank robbers seems to prefer the Red Line, the T held up Red Line service to let police search for him.

By adamg - 9/7/11 - 9:00 am

Wicked Local Cambridge reports on an incident early on Aug. 31 on Mass. Ave., in which an alleged drunk screaming epithets at riders on a T bus was pulled off and then started hitting his head on the sidewalk. When an officer put his boot under the guy's head to keep him from cracking his head off, the report states, the man began bitting the officer's boot.

By adamg - 9/6/11 - 3:26 pm

Morales MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester man for indecent assault and battery on a 28 bus Saturday afternoon - thanks in part to the bus driver, who refused to open the doors for him as she pulled into Dudley station.

According to a police report, Jose Morales, 28, was sitting near the front of the bus around 2:20 p.m., Saturday, when the bus stopped at Warren and Circuit streets, and he stood up and grabbed the left butt cheek of a woman sitting in front of him. She screamed she'd just been grabbed and stood up - at which point Morales grabbed her again, police say.

The bus driver told police Morales tried to get off the bus, but she instead kept the doors closed until she got to Dudley station, where police were waiting.

The T reports Morales is the 14th person arrested for indecent assault and battery on its system this year.

This past December on the 28:
The bus wasn't the only thing that was jerking between Dudley and Ruggles Friday afternoon

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 9/1/11 - 8:46 am

Red Line workers

Roving UHub photographer Jake Wark become walking UHub photographer Jake Wark this morning, thanks to a dead Red Line (happy Sept. 1!), which is how he came upon these T workers just before the Longfellow working fast to fix whatever it was that broke.

By adamg - 8/30/11 - 10:24 am

Columbus Avenue slobsColumbus Avenue slobs.

It's as if we've been hit by a hurricane of slobbery. Citizens Connect this morning is just filled with reports of mounds of filth and vermin, including:

  • 774 Columbus Ave., Roxbury: "Every week, Residents of 772, 774, and 776 Columbus throw loose trash on the sidewalk. Makes it difficult for garbagemen to pick up everything, so there is usually lots of trash left behind. (worse than usual because many are probably moving on Sept 1)."
  • Huntington Ave., Mission Hill: "Student moving trash all up and down Huntington Ave from Brigham circle to S. Huntington corner."
  • 22 Batterymarch, downtown: "The sidewalk is stained and usually covered in rotting food, bird feces, feathers, avian flu, and pigeons."
  • Downtown Crossing Red Line platforms: "Dead cockroaches are littered all over." Ed question: Well, better than if they were still alive, no?
  • The strip mall on American Legion Highway in Roslindale: "Rubbish fiesta on Legion."
  • By adamg - 8/29/11 - 10:42 am

    Drippy South Station

    Mikesssss braved the falling water at South Station yesterday.

    By adamg - 8/28/11 - 11:59 pm

    Although some may have some delays, the T says.

    Updated Monday morning

    By adamg - 8/28/11 - 6:59 pm

    The MBTA says it hopes to have all trains, buses and ferries running on normal weekday schedules first thing Monday morning.

    The one possible problem: The Riverside Line, hard hit with track-seeking trees and limbs that came down in impressive numbers, in some cases landing on overhead wires on their way down.

    "Crews are working very hard to have the Riverside Line ready for the morning commute," the T said in a statement."

    By adamg - 8/28/11 - 1:17 pm

    Inman Square bus stop

    Tom Myers took this photo of the Cambridge Street bus stop in Inman Square, adds:

    Worth closing the T.

    By adamg - 8/28/11 - 12:44 pm

    Fallen tree on Red Line

    The MBTA forwarded this photo of a tree down on the Red Line just south of Fields Corner and this photo of a tree down just north of JFK/UMass:

    By adamg - 8/28/11 - 11:04 am

    Green Line flooding. Photo by MBTA.

    The MBTA provided this photo of the Green Line between Chestnut Hill and Reservoir stations. More photos in the comments.

    By adamg - 8/27/11 - 6:56 pm

    UPDATE: MassDOT announced after the T announcement that trains and buses would run until 8 a.m. to let health-care workers get to their jobs.

    No subways, no trains, no buses after 8 a.m., the MBTA announced tonight:

    By adamg - 8/23/11 - 9:23 am

    Shaun Engstrom reports this morning:

    BREAKING NEWS: Coraline stop motion ad between Harvard & Central Sq replaced w/ Blue Man Group. It's been 2 years, praise the MBTA gods.

    By adamg - 8/22/11 - 1:15 pm

    Dynamic duo: Davis and DaveyDynamic duo: Davis and Davey

    The MBTA's longtime chief financial officer will become acting general manager when Richard Davey takes over the Mass. Department of Transportation in a couple of weeks, the T announced today.

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