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By adamg - 8/5/11 - 1:56 pm

Scott MooreA Brookline man was arrested at Kenmore station last night on charges he grabbed a teen's crotch on the crowded platform following the Red Sox game.

By adamg - 8/4/11 - 10:47 pm

Inspectors and police at Hyde Park stationInspectors and police at Hyde Park station, a few feet from tarps covering remains.

UPDATE: Victim identified as Hyde Park man.

An Acela train barreling through Hyde Park station struck and killed somebody around 10:30 p.m. The engineer immediately applied emergency brakes, but it still took several blocks for the train to come to a stop - just on the other side of the West Street bridge, well north of the station.

More than 100 passengers sat on the train for more than two hours beside beside a wall painted with "Welcome to Boston," while outside, police and firefighters also waited, to help transfer passengers to a promised relief train from South Station that never came.

"The train crew haven't announced what happened, but passengers told them we read about what happened on Twitter," Jesse, a passenger on the train reported.

He added that the train "coasted to a stop with a burning electrical smell that I presume was the brakes. AC was off for a few, then kicked back on."

At 12:45 a.m., after an inspector took one last look around the train, the engineer sounded its horn twice and the train took off for Back Bay and South Station.

Meanwhile, back at the Hyde Park commuter-rail stop, investigators continued to examine the tracks and put down evidence cones along the inbound platform. Three white tarps covered remains along the center tracks.

Flashing police and fire lights cast an unusual glow on the stopped Acela train.Flashing police and fire lights cast an unusual glow on the stopped Acela train.

By adamg - 8/4/11 - 7:50 pm

Bill James, yeah, the baseball-stats Bill James, claims Albert DeSalvo wasn't the Boston Strangler and that whoever the killer was used what's now the Green Line to get to and from the murder sites - all of which he says are steps from trolley stops.

James's non-baseball book.

By adamg - 8/4/11 - 9:54 am

Channel 5 tweets that MBTA General Manager Rich Davey will replace state Transportation Department Secretary Jeff Mullan next month. As head of MassDOT, Davey will assume responsibility for highways across the state, including the turnpike and the ever popular Big Dig.

By adamg - 8/3/11 - 10:55 pm

Rob V. checks in from the Other Coast:

I'm sitting in a terminal at LAX and wishing I was waiting for the Silver Line.

I hate the Silver Line.

I love my family in LA, but I hate this city so much that I wish I was on the Silver Line right now...

By adamg - 8/3/11 - 9:43 am

RyanMBTA Transit Police report arresting a woman they say punched her infant son hard enough to make his mouth bleed on a 23 bus yesterday afternoon.

According to police, when fellow passengers on the bus "expressed their concern for the well being of the child," Erica Ryan, 25, told them to mind their own business.

Police say Ryan told responding officers that "I was trying to feed my baby on the crowded bus, then my hand slipped and I hit him in the mouth."

But fellow passengers told a different story:

By adamg - 8/3/11 - 9:05 am

The Herald reports on several "sacked MBTA punks" whom arbitrators ordered the T to hire back. In the case of the sleepy coke user - fired less than a month after a fatal trolley crash in Newton - the arbitrator found the drug test violated her privacy rights by ordering a drug test.

By adamg - 8/2/11 - 7:38 pm

Joe Curtatone is not the least bit thrilled at the news that end date for the Green Line extension through Somerville has become asymptotic:

By adamg - 8/2/11 - 6:01 pm

The T reports "an electrical power surge due to weather" is causing problems with outbound commuter-rail trains at South Station.

By adamg - 8/2/11 - 3:52 pm

Boston Police report a nearly month-long operation with their MBTA counterparts has resulted in 24 arrests of alleged drug dealers and their minions in and around the Andrew stop on the Red Line:

Since July 6, 2011, this effort proactively targeted a criminal element who frequently utilized the station to arrive, enter and leave the Andrew Square area to conduct unlawful drug transactions.

By adamg - 8/1/11 - 5:01 pm

State Rep. Denise Provost (D-Somerville) posted on her Facebook page:

Early today, I was extremely disheartened to learn from MassDOT that the expected completion of the Green Line Extension has been delayed again – this time until at least 2018. While I appreciate MassDOT’s efforts in appropriate mitigation and community input, I am extremely disappointed that this vital project is, yet again, being postponed. ...

MassDOT's annual status report to DEP on its SIP commitments - which was due July 1 - was submitted today, estimating a 2018-2020 completion date for the Green Line Extension.

In a statement, MassDOT says:

By adamg - 8/1/11 - 9:53 am

Rodriguez MBTA Transit Police report a man stopped for jumping through a broken fare gate at Andrew station yesterday afternoon tried to bolt from officers questioning him, possibly because of the gun with the safety turned off that he was packing.

According to a police report, officers spotted Hamilton Rodriguez of Chelsea jumping over a cone at a broken fare gate around 1:20 p.m., which would have gotten him a citation.

Instead, as officers were talking to him, he tried to run away:

By adamg - 7/29/11 - 1:56 pm

Paul Levy wonders why the T still takes liquor ads; notices:

[T]he T seems to be targeting those ads to the poorer sections of town and near colleges and universities

By adamg - 7/26/11 - 1:36 pm

Diaz A homeless man was arrested in the pedestrian tunnel between the Orange and Blue lines at State Street last night after a chase that began on an Orange Line train, MBTA Transit Police report.

According to a police report, Francisco Hernandez Diaz, of no particular address, took off his black leather belt on an inbound Orange Line train at State Street and began swinging it over his head and screaming, around 8:30 p.m., Monday.

As passengers swarmed out of the train to get away from him, a T inspector boarded the car. Hernandez took a swing at her with his belt, then stopped and undid his pants to expose himself to her. At that point, she fled as well, just as a police officer arrived on the platform, the report continues.

By adamg - 7/26/11 - 10:47 am

New MBTA locomotive

By adamg - 7/22/11 - 5:46 pm

WBUR reports, adds the T has not gotten to the point of specific proposed increases, let alone public hearings on them.

By adamg - 7/22/11 - 11:12 am

Or, at the least, make sure they have a hand free to keep their skirt down, due to a dramatic wind-tunnel effect, the Accidental Fiddler reports.

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