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By adamg - 3/3/07 - 6:22 pm

Iron Bowl and company drove to South Station today to hop on the Silver Line to see the USS John F. Kennedy, docked in South Boston, but after they paid their fares, they learned the T had suspended Silver Line service in that direction, because too many people were already trying to get on the ship:

... We could not even get a refund. ...

By adamg - 3/3/07 - 2:17 pm

Charlie on the MBTA gets e-mail from somebody reporting that the T's online trip planner claims the best way to get from Brookline to South Station without walking much is to take the Green Line to Park Street, then the Red Line to JFK/UMass, then to get on the Red Line the other way to South Station.

By adamg - 3/2/07 - 2:22 pm

There's no atmosphere on the moon, which means there's no weather, which would be great, since the Boston area's reaction to anything more than a light sprinkle or dusting of snow seems to be to fall completely apart, as Margalit proves with her breathless account of a battle-to-the-death struggle this morning to get down Rte. 9 and Brookline Avenue for a doctor's appointment - which started late because her doctors were engaged in a similar epic struggle on the Riverside line:

By adamg - 3/1/07 - 10:47 am

You know those cool above-ground maps the T installed in the 1970s - then never updated? Paul Levy was looking at one at Kenmore and noticed all the long-gone names:

... Hospital of the House of the Good Samaritan; Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; Jimmy Fund Research Lab; State Teachers College of Boston; Boston English High School; New England Deaconess Hospital; Beth Israel Hospital; Sears Roebuck and Company; Children's Hospital Medical Center; Boston Lying Inn Hospital; Joslin Clinic. ...

By adamg - 2/28/07 - 7:24 pm

Charlie on the MBTA reports that Tom Menino wants legislation to make the MBTA change the name of Copley station to Copley/BPL station.

By adamg - 2/28/07 - 10:30 am

An MBTA lieutenant interviews the three guys behind Vendetta Gunn, a video about a couple of T detectives (the lieutenant found them while doing some Googling on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, natch):

Part 2 of the interview

Part 3.

By adamg - 2/28/07 - 10:18 am

Zolok, who experienced the Moscow subway during the 1980s, gets off the Red Line at Alewife last night and says The T could learn a thing or two about subway operation:

I could've gotten to Alewife faster if the MBTA had the foresight to hitch up our train to a team of oxen.

No joke, I was a young man when I boarded that train full of naive' hopes about overcoming "switching problems in Davis Square", decades later we limped into Alewife liked the starved survivors of Stalin's GULAG. ...

By adamg - 2/27/07 - 8:18 pm

Russ Stein wishes the tall Metro hawker at Green Street would just go away:

... He's like seven feet tall and runs from one end of the station to the other shouting shit like, "Aw yeah, I've got your Metro!" and "It's a great day for a Metro!" while getting in the way of people trying to catch the train. I've also heard him muttering some ex-junkie Jesus bullshit when dodging him. ...

By adamg - 2/27/07 - 8:13 pm

Charlie on the MBTA reports that nothing makes you appreciate the T like two days on Chicago's CTA.

By adamg - 2/27/07 - 11:46 am

Mac Daniel reports MBTA officials have identified the trolley driver - and he hears from the off-duty New Hampshire police officer who watched after the girl until she was re-united with her mother.

By adamg - 2/25/07 - 7:38 pm

If we never hear from Teddy Kokoros again, it's probably because some men in black have wiped his brain clean for having photographed the mysterious bus tunnnel at Harvard station.

By adamg - 2/25/07 - 9:21 am

Good Lord - and thank goodness for the kindness of strangers.

By adamg - 2/24/07 - 10:31 pm

This video will either make you want to see more videos of Little Doggie on the T or make you take a hammer to your monitor:

By adamg - 2/24/07 - 9:18 pm

It's one thing for somebody in her own car to get distracted by her cell phone; quite another when she's a driver on the 137 bus out of Oak Grove.

By adamg - 2/23/07 - 2:42 pm

One of Charlie on the MBTA's field correspondents reports from Newton Center, where Riverside service was halted thanks to a newish bridge raining concrete on the tracks. She reports T employees not only handled the shuttle-bus service well but even looked out for the comfort of inconvenienced riders, offering to let them warm up on waiting buses.

By adamg - 2/22/07 - 11:50 pm

No big surprise to Green Line regulars, but still, Charlie on the MBTA gets the goods on a state auditor's report on those Breda trolley cars.

By adamg - 2/22/07 - 4:23 pm

Mike Mennonno writes that the T map on at least one Red Line car indicates which Red Line stops to get off at for "cute boyz."

By adamg - 2/22/07 - 12:32 am

Charles Bandes wonders if the woman with the heart drawn on her forehead on the Red Line last night is in love or just lost a bet.

By adamg - 2/21/07 - 12:18 pm

Adam Rosi-Kessel reports on two days of fun at the Roslindale commuter-rail stop: Yesterday, the sign kept flashing the 8 a.m. train was 20 minutes late. In fact, it never showed up - the next train was the 8:23 train, itself 10 minutes late and sardine-can full. Then, this morning, he got on the 8 a.m. train, which had no lights at all on:

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