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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.

By adamg - 8/22/11 - 10:35 am

Boston Biker reports on the planned facilities at Braintree, Ashmont, Davis Square, Oak Grove and Malden Center - and that they will use a different and better rack design than the existing cages, based on input from actual bicyclists.

By adamg - 8/22/11 - 10:05 am

Dave reports an incident shortly before 8 a.m. at the West Newton commuter-rail stop:

Exciting AM - just did CPR on a commuter at west newton. We got to him just after he collapsed; started CPR.

And Newton EMS shocked him from vfib back to sinus rhythm ... He had a pulse when we put him on the ambulance.

By adamg - 8/20/11 - 2:37 pm

Hot off the developer's desktop: Talk to the T. Fairly barebones (let's you send a note and attach a photo to MBTA Customer Service), doesn't have standard MBTA branding yet, and only for iPhone/iPad. It's by a senior Web developer at the T.

Thanks to Stuart for spotting this.

By adamg - 8/19/11 - 2:30 pm

GibbsA Jamaica Plain man got cut over his left eye during a struggle with an MBTA Transit Police officer investigating threats against a worker at the Wood Island Blue Line stop last night.

By adamg - 8/19/11 - 9:29 am

Just a normal morning on the Red Line: One inbound train died, so the train behind it was summoned to push it - after first dumping passengers at Savin Hill. PinayNoire exclaims:

MBTA captain's log 8192011: Still stranded in Savin Hill with inhabitants of planet Dorchester. Must. Get. Air.

By adamg - 8/18/11 - 4:21 pm

Power was shut off to the Red Line this afternoon as Boston firefighters investigated burning trash on the tracks near Broadway station.

Meanwhile, for all the problems on the T, riders are unlikely to be delayed due to cows, unlike out in Amherst:

Cows

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo forwarded the photo and this account:

By adamg - 8/18/11 - 1:43 pm

Hughes A man arrested but never tried for stabbing and spitting on a man on a 39 bus in Jamaica Plain in 2004 will finally face charges after police tracked him to his new home in Roxbury.

Michael Hughes, 64, never went before a jury because not long after his arrest, he was turned over to Maryland authorities to face trial on charges he killed a man preparing Christmas baskets for the poor in 1974. Convicted of second-degree murder in 2005, he spent three years in a Maryland prison, then at some point after his release came back to Boston.

According to a report by MBTA Transit Police, Hughes went berserk on a 39 bus at South and Centre streets around 4 p.m. on Sept 5, 2004 when he thought the "openly gay" man behind had deliberately kicked his seat. He allegedly whipped out a knife and began slicing the man's arm as he also spit at him and began screaming anti-gay epithets at him.

Boston Police first noticed Hughes was back in town last fall, Transit Police report: A Boston Police detective noticed a man he thought was Hughes in a homeless shelter on Massachusetts Avenue in November.

But Hughes evaded the two police forces until yesterday, when the same detective spotted him entering 6 Hartford St. in Roxbury. He alerted Transit Police, who found a default warrant for the 2004 attack and sent several detectives and officers to the address yesterday afternoon.

Police say Hughes tried to slip out the back door and then by denied any knowledge of the 2004 incident or of the alias he used at the time. His tattoos and physical characteristics, however, did him in, police report.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 8/18/11 - 8:30 am

The Herald reports conductors on a post-Mac Miller commmuter-rail train pleaded with cops in Winchester for help with the punch-throwing rebels without a cause, but none would board the train in the 45 minutes until Transit Police could arrive, demanding to know why the train crew hadn't asked for help in Somerville or Medford.

By adamg - 8/12/11 - 1:09 pm

PaulMBTA Transit Police report arresting a man they say was about to sell some drugs at the JFK/UMass Red Line stop yesterday evening.

Robert Paul, 36, of Roxbury, was allegedly packing meth, pot, heroin, oxycodone and diazepam when two officers interrupted him and a potential buyer near a Columbia Road exit gate around 7:30 p.m. He also had a portable digital scale, a glass pipe and 13 spare plastic bags, along with a folding knife and $237 in cash, police say.

Because the station sits next to the Boston Collegiate Charter School, he will be charged with a variety of offenses in a school zone. He is also wanted on a parole violation in Concord, NH, where he was convicted of armed robbery, police say.

By adamg - 8/12/11 - 9:32 am

Commuters on a Needham-Line train report they've now been sitting outside South Station for more than 30 minutes thanks to a dead engine.

Scott Katz tweets:

Waiting for push into station - could spit and reach platform now but stuck here going on 30 minutes.

Aaron Perrino adds:

If that fails they are going to send a pick up truck to save us.

By adamg - 8/11/11 - 9:12 am

Alison Thompson reports part of a conversation she overheard on the Orange Line this morning:

"I used to live in the woods. I got attacked by a turkey."

"Me too, but not in the woods."

"What was his name?"

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