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By adamg - 12/14/23 - 9:54 am
Surveillance photos of man with large juice container, gray jacket with OW in big letters and peach sneakers

Surveillance photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy in a rather distinctive getup who they say "struck another passenger without provocation/warning" on a Green Line trolley near Government Center around 6 p.m. on Nov. 13.

If Letter Guy looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050.

By adamg - 12/11/23 - 6:21 pm

Around 3:10 p.m., a man fell on the inbound Red Line tracks at Broadway. A rider reports two men jumped down on the track to try to get him off, but he wasn't moving. T workers and police were able to get him off the tracks and service resumed.

By adamg - 12/10/23 - 3:16 pm
People boarding Charon's ferry across the Styx

The T won't be re-enacting Doré's vision of a ferry ride of the damned. Source.

The MBTA reports it's canceled its morning ferries tomorrow due to anticipated high winds and rough seas.

The Hingham ferry should resume service at 11 a.m., the Hingham/Hull/Logan ferry at 2 and the Charlestown ferry at noon, the T says.

By adamg - 12/9/23 - 2:45 pm

Work to "regauge" most of the Green Line Extension that was supposed to be done by Monday instead will take another week to finish, the MBTA announced yesterday. Read more.

By Sasha Patkin - 12/7/23 - 9:29 am
The cast of T: An MBTA Musical

The cast of T: An MBTA Musical. Photo by Dan Fox.

Loving to hate the absurd incompetence of the T is a time-honored Boston tradition as old as the train itself. The cathartic experience of venting about the T is a bonding and a uniting force of frustration in a diverse city, as easy to spark a conversation with as talking about the weather.

T: An MBTA Musical proudly carries on this tradition. Read more.

By adamg - 12/6/23 - 9:21 am

Around 9 a.m., the MBTA reported Green Line delays of about 15 minutes due to a trolley that decided, no, the show must not go on, near Arlington.

By adamg - 12/4/23 - 9:42 am

At 6:58 a.m., the MBTA reported Orange Line riders could expect delays due to one of the brand-new trains suffering an embarrassing "mechanical issue" at Malden Center. The T updated at 7:28 a.m. that service was back to the new normal.

By adamg - 12/4/23 - 9:36 am

The MBTA reports it's started running trolleys to and from Union Square again, but that service on the stubbier end of the Green Line Extension remains slow because of a signal issue near Lechmere.

By adamg - 11/29/23 - 9:35 am

Gabrielle Gurley, who used to be a reporter here, compares the current state of the MBTA and the MTA. One of her conclusions: New York's system has a lot more support in its state legislature than ours.

By adamg - 11/27/23 - 12:28 pm
Three wanted for Boylston graffiti

Transit Police report they are looking for the three men they say smeared the PCC trolley stored at Boylston station with graffiti around midnight on Nov. 12.

If they look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 - you can remain anonymous.

By adamg - 11/27/23 - 9:19 am

An inbound Red Line train pulled into Andrew shortly before 6:30 a.m. and then it suffered an embarrassing door problem that forced all the trains behind it to back up until the T could get the train and its stuck door out of there.

By adamg - 11/22/23 - 11:43 am

Jamaica Plain News reports the T decided it was time to remove the old poles along Centre Street before they started falling on people's heads.

By adamg - 11/21/23 - 1:59 pm
Graffiti covered trolley at Boylston station

A roving UHub photographer reports somebody got past the fences at Boylston and tagged up the PCC trolley sitting there - just like somebody did back in 2014.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 3:26 pm
Desk, suitcase on the Green Line

Theodore Hook couldn't help but notice this traveling desk on the E Line inbound from North Station today.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 6:35 pm

The MBTA said today that if we want the entire subway and commuter-rail system to be up to snuff, it'll cost nearly $24.5 billion - yes, with a 'b'. The T emphasizes that doesn't say anything about safety but that that's what would be needed to bring all those trains and buses up to a "state of good repair," you know, tracks that don't crack, pantographs that don't fry, doors that don't fail to work, no more slow zones, trains that are younger than your grandfather, etc., etc., etc. Read more.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 3:20 pm

Transit Police report arresting Calvin Freeman 38, of Jamaica Plain at Hynes on the Green Line after he threatened several riders there with a knife around 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

By adamg - 11/15/23 - 12:21 pm

Sure, Harvard station filled with smoke shortly after 8 a.m., but after getting the offending train out of the station, the MBTA responded to several people alarmed by the possibility they were on or near a flaming train: Read more.

By adamg - 11/13/23 - 4:02 pm

The MBTA reported at 2:08 p.m. that Green Line service in both directions came to an abrupt halt due to a newly cracked rail inbound between Arlington and Boylston. At 3:19, after telling riders they could take the Orange Line downtown, the T reported the unexpected repair work was completed.

By adamg - 11/13/23 - 12:53 pm

CommonWealth Beacon digs up new info on the saga of the nine MBTA officials the Globe wrote lived well out of the T district when, in fact, only six of them did: The Globe had to print corrections and fired the reporter, whom state and MBTA flacks knew was working on the story and knew the names of the officials yet refused to answer the reporter's calls for comment: Read more.

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