Wellington

Big and tall man charged with showing his beef at Wellington

adamg — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:55:38 +0000

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Chelsea man on charges he not only urinated in the Wellington busway as two women stood there, he kept staring at one of them - until they finally went to find a T inspector.

Ernest Mogbana, 57, was arrested around 6:30 p.m on a charge of open and gross lewdness at the Rte. 99 berth. Police said the women had little trouble pointing out the 6'6", 350-lb. Mogbana.

Innocent, etc.

Track fires not just a tunnel thing

adamg — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:28:39 +0000

MBTA Transit Police tweet passengers on an Orange Line train outside Wellington had to be evacuated this afternoon after several track fires broke out near the station.

Signals on the Orange Line are green with envy this morning

adamg — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:59:42 +0000

No way are they going to let some trolley line upstage them, nuh uh! That seems as good a reason as any to explain why Orange Line signals - which the T spent several years repairing - are malfunctioning at Wellington this morning, causing all sorts of issues for riders.

Once again with the signal problems at Wellington

adamg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:38:43 +0000

No doubt there's a reason the signals keep failing on the part of the line that kept getting shut down over several years to repair all the signals.

Didn't the MBTA spend several years fixing the switches on the northern end of the Orange Line?

adamg — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:08:55 +0000

Switching problems at Wellington mean inbound delays on the Orange Line this morning. As Matt Kurkowski tweeted:

Clearly it is time to replace the switch if these "switching problems" ALWAYS happen at Wellington! Love a 1/4 MPH commute.

Imagine if Wellington station were built to be functional

adamg — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:21:24 +0000

An Orange Line rider can dream, can't he?

Here's a good reason not to grope somebody on the T

adamg — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:27:22 +0000

Your victim might whip out a cell phone and take your picture and then the police will post your photo where everybody can see it as they attempt to hunt you down.

Hey, everybody, let's play a new game on the T: Musical trains

adamg — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:04:07 +0000

OK, so we know it was pretty bad on the Orange and Green lines this morning. But how awesomely bad was it? You have to read Some Assembly Required's account of the mishegas at Wellington:

... The train sat for a minute, and people were starting to wonder why it didn't go on its way. Then the PA announced that this train WAS going back to Oak Grove after all. Everyone oozed grumpily back out of the train and onto the platform, including all those who had been on the train to begin with, and shortly after a second, empty train came in on the opposite platform, again from the "wrong" direction. The PA announced that THIS train was the one going into Boston, and everyone oozed onto that one. I continued to wait and observe, and both trains continued to sit.

After a minute or two the PA guy, who by this point was probably starting to really hate his day, informed us that BOTH trains would be going into Boston ...

What happened at Wellington this morning?

adamg — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:46:24 +0000

An Orange Line rider wonders what was up around 9 a.m.:

Yellow taped off parts of the parking lot - tons of cops, a few posted around with binoculars looking at the parking lot. I overheard something about a red car. No one would tell me what was up, but it sure looked like something had the MBTA and police crews out in full force. ...

Orange Line epiphany

adamg — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:54:36 +0000

Dinane recounts your typical Orange Line commute involving a train going out of service with, of course, the alleged service train right behind it that eventually moseys into the station looking like the last train out of Paris in "Casablanca," then realizes:

... I'm very lucky to have a life where the most annoying and painful things are almost always public transportation in Boston.

It could be way worse.