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By adamg - 7/22/11 - 10:31 am

Not that Frank Oglesby isn't the Man with the Voice, but Kevin Flight got a large number of suggestions this morning when he tweeted he'd rather have Gilbert Gottfried making announcements on the train.

KWAPT:

Denis Leary: "Hey turn your IPod down slick - yeah you. Now move from the door so people can get out, jackwipe."

Oinonio:

By adamg - 7/21/11 - 11:09 am

If you have a Twitter account and your train or bus has non-functioning AC, give a shoutout to @mbtaGM with your car or bus number.

By adamg - 7/19/11 - 1:14 pm

Nhu Nguyen and Derek Matulina were once friends who fell out over money Nguyen felt Matulina owed him for a drug transaction, Suffolk County prosecutors said today. When the two crossed paths at the Savin Hill T stop on May 7, they began to fight and Nguyen pulled out a gun and fatally shot Matulina, according to the District Attorney's office.

Nguyen was arraigned today in Suffolk Superior Court following his indictment for manslaughter and firearms charges. A judge ordered him held in lieu of $100,000 cash bail.

By adamg - 7/18/11 - 10:48 am

State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez reports Boston and Transit Police will install the cameras because of 12 assaults in the area around the station this summer.

By adamg - 7/16/11 - 9:20 pm

Suspects

MBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a black male, a Hispanic male and a white female on charges they attacked a man because of his sexual orientation on a State Street Orange Line platform around 10 p.m. on July 10:

The victim was on the northbound platform when an unidentified male # 2 shoved him onto a train as the doors opened because of the victim's sexual orientation. The unidentified male # 2 as well as the individual depicted as # 1 directed several homophobic slurs at the victim after shoving him. The suspects depicted above along with an unidentified female companion, boarded an Orange Line train at State Street Station with the victim and continued to harass him about his sexual orientation. The suspects then fled the train at Haymarket Station.

If caught, they'll be charged with assault and battery and civil-rights violations.

By adamg - 7/16/11 - 6:59 pm

It's a mess on the Green Line tonight due to a "minor derailment" of an outbound trolley between Hynes and Kenmore.

MBTA spokeswoman Lydia Rivera says trolley 3602 derailed around 6:15 p.m. after leaving Hynes. No injuries were reported and passengers were evacuated through the tunnel to Kenmore, Rivera says, adding the T hopes to have repairs made by 8:15 p.m. In the meantime, it's shuttle buses between Kenmore and Copley in both directions.

Scott Madin reports:

By adamg - 7/15/11 - 9:45 am

Close call at rail crossing

Commuting UHub correspondent Banshee took this picture this morning and filed this report:

By adamg - 7/14/11 - 4:02 pm

The Globe reports Jeffrey Mullan will depart as state transportation secretary this fall because he needs to make more money, not because of any concerns over his handling of Big Dig safety issues.

Mullan, however, issued a statement after the Globe report came out:

Reports of my departure as Secretary of Transportation this fall are premature.

By adamg - 7/14/11 - 9:23 am

Trailer for Escape from the Red Line. All its missing is a theme song by Maureen McGovern.

By adamg - 7/13/11 - 2:00 pm

A man in the process of being removed from an MBTA bus for threatening to kill the driver and his family at Andrew station yesterday evening took all his clothes off and offered passersby a whack at his genitals, according to an MBTA Transit Police report.

By adamg - 7/12/11 - 1:52 pm

Red Line evacuation

Carly Marie was on the dead Red Line train between Harvard and Porter this morning and took this photo before stepping down to the tracks for a tunnel walk. She adds:

By adamg - 7/12/11 - 10:14 am

The MBTA has started selling ad space on its Web site, with the first ad scheduled to start tomorrow. The T hopes to make "hundreds of thousands" from online ads.

By adamg - 7/11/11 - 12:53 pm

I will call it George and I will hug it and pet it and squeeze it and pat it and pet it ...

The new T map.

By adamg - 7/11/11 - 9:53 am

Commuters will get a chance to help choose the color scheme of the new locomotives the T plans to start rolling out at the end of 2012. Alas, the T has already selected the three finalists, rather than putting up an app that would let you experiment with, say, multi-colored polka dots or Charlie shushing people in the quiet car; you'll get to vote starting tomorrow on mbta.com.

By adamg - 7/10/11 - 11:09 pm

Whole series of planking photos, including my favorite - planking the giant steel T outside Alewife. Sometimes, though, it can be hard to tell if somebody is planking or dead drunk.

By adamg - 7/7/11 - 8:58 pm

Shuttle buses instead of trains thanks to this, at Savin Hill.

By adamg - 7/6/11 - 9:10 am

A look at the ramifications of the upgrade of the Fairmount Line, which will include four new stations. Skip to 1:30 unless you want to count up all the government buzzwords.

Via the Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition.

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