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By adamg - 6/27/11 - 3:41 pm

Only suffered a broken elbow, Channel 5 reports.

By adamg - 6/27/11 - 11:34 am

Seems MBCR will have mimes stationed in North and South stations this afternoon to help usher in the expansion of quiet-car service across all the T's commuter-rail lines.

By adamg - 6/24/11 - 12:45 pm

The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports an unexpected federal grant could provide enough money to start work on the $200-million rehab of the "temporary" facility - which the T recently said it couldn't do at all.

By adamg - 6/24/11 - 12:07 pm

Dudley Square Main Streets reports June 25 is Art Smart, featuring art, food and entertainment between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. But also, Mayor Menino and MBTA General Manager Rich Davey will be on hand to unveil the Dudley station's newest amenity: A state-of-the-art public restroom.

By adamg - 6/23/11 - 8:46 am

Jessi Savino and Beth report from Jackson Square, where they just got off an inbound Orange Line train being taken out of service because of its newly cracked window.

By oddjob60 - 6/22/11 - 10:55 am

Today's rabble-rouser in the Herald: How the MBTA hires drivers with awful records, including:

By adamg - 6/20/11 - 10:22 am

An alert citizen reported an urgent situation at the Back Bay MBTA station:

Screaming woman and two men drinking a bottle of Listerine.

Drinking Listerine straight? Not on the rocks, at least? Alas, nothing the city could do but forward the complaint to the T, since it's their jurisdiction.

By adamg - 6/20/11 - 8:01 am

Garage view

By adamg - 6/20/11 - 6:54 am

Sure, the T proved Saturday it has lots of capacity on commuter rail, carrying almost twice as many people to and from the parade as it does on a normal workday. But that was of little solace to people waiting at "inner" stops closer to Boston, who watched full train after full train just whiz right by them without stopping. Among them: Charley on the MTA, who describes his experience at West Medford:

At 10am a train whizzed by, blowing its horn, didn't stop.

Another train whizzed by, blowing its horn, didn't stop.

By adamg - 6/19/11 - 12:22 pm
The instant before the escalator went into reverse

The instant before the escalator went into reverse. Photo by Jennifer Nottage.

Jennifer Nottage and her two kids, Alyana, 6, and Elijah, 12, were among the scores streaming up the escalator from the Back Bay commuter-rail stop for the Bruins parade yesterday morning when things came to a crashing halt. In e-mail, the South Attleboro resident writes: Read more.

By adamg - 6/16/11 - 5:38 pm
Orange Line tracks kinky in the heat in Malden

An Orange Line problem Ray Davies would love. Photo by MBTA.

A "heat kink" in the tracks near Malden (above) is wreaking all sorts of havoc on the Orange Line this afternoon, forcing Oak Grove-bound riders onto buses at Wellington - which is also causing problems on the bus lines from which buses have been diverted to shuttle subway riders. Read more.

By adamg - 6/16/11 - 4:37 pm

The T says it's beefing up service on Saturday for the Bruins victory parade, which kicks off at 11 a.m. at the Garden.

All four subway lines will run at "near rush hour" schedules during the day. The T says it will also have extra orange-vested workers stationed throughout the system to help riders unfamiliar with how to use CharlieCards or get to the parade route.

The T said commuter rail will run on its normal Saturday schedule, but that it hopes to announce some additional service tomorrow.

By adamg - 6/16/11 - 4:01 pm

Last week, Boston hosted the American Public Transportation Association's annual rail conference. A highlight of the conference is always the rail rodeo, in which teams from subway systems across the continent compete in both train maintenance and operation.

By adamg - 6/16/11 - 3:43 pm

The MBTA's first-in-the-nation refund program for late trains goes away starting July 1. The move will save the T $1 million a year, which it says it can spend on service enhancements. In a statement, MBTA General Manager Rich Davey said:

While some customers may be disappointed with the program's elimination, it's important that people know that this money will be put to very good use. By reallocating these funds into the development of more customer service enhancements, we expect a greater number of T riders to benefit from this money.

By adamg - 6/16/11 - 8:52 am

The MBTA announced yesterday it's gone live with a beta feed of data on the whereabouts of commuter-rail trains that software developers can use to build applications similar to the ones already in use for T subway and bus lines.

By adamg - 6/15/11 - 8:28 pm

Booking photoBooking photo.A Lynn woman was arraigned yesterday on charges she responded to police nabbing her piggybacking her way into Ashmont station Monday by jumping off the inbound platform and attempting to run down the tunnel.

Ophelia Wheat, 37, was charged with trespassing, resisting arrest, and obstructing a railroad, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

According to the DA's office, MBTA Transit Police officers watched Wheat enter the station by following a paying customer.

Wheat allegedly told the officer that she had paid but the machine had stolen her money. The officer offered to check its history and confirm the story, but she allegedly refused and proceeded downstairs to the platform.

By adamg - 6/14/11 - 7:47 am

Cynthia tweeted around 7:30 a.m.:

Young boy fell on tracks at Stonybrook. Seems okay. Paramedics getting him out now. Orange delayed both directions. ...

Uh oh dad's arrived. Let's argue with mom in front of everyone about how it happened.

By adamg - 6/12/11 - 12:34 pm

Liam Day is writing poems about specific MBTA bus routes.

Compare to subway poems.

By adamg - 6/11/11 - 12:11 pm

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the latest at the Hyundai-Rotem plant, where workers are scheduled to churn out a ton of new coaches for the MBTA just as soon as they finish an order for SEPTA, Philadelphia's equivalent:

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