Green Line

I said, "Pull over!"

Kaz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:57:25 -0400

While I was out picking up some food early Saturday morning, I heard two people outside of the Shaw's at Packard's Corner in Allston discussing the speed limit on Comm. Ave. The discussion centered around whether 6 mph was too slow for traffic or not. This seemed like a crazy discussion so I turned to see where they were pointing...

If you've been looking for a definition of 'putz'

adamg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:55:50 -0400

Gnomi provides one in her description of a guy who started arguing with a blind woman about a seat on a C trolley this afternoon.

MBTA frowns on alleged effort by worker to give himself another raise

adamg — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:13:39 -0400

A veteran MBTA worker was arrested this morning on charges of skimming money from fare boxes after Red Sox games, the MBTA reports.

Gilberto Carrasquillo, 43, of Dorchester, will be arraigned tomorrow in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of larceny over $250.

The MBTA says Carrasquillo, a senior revenue collection agent in charge of returning post-Sox "drop boxes" to a T vault, was caught in a sting operation last night.

The T sets up these boxes at Fenway and Kenmore stations to expidite fare collection for passengers without cards or tickets after Sox games. Last night, police put marked bills in the fare boxes. When an audit this morning showed all but one of the bills missing, police arrested Carrasquillo.

Carrasquillo has worked for the MBTA for 22 years, the T said in a statement.

Somebody get hit by a trolley at Harvard Ave.?

adamg — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:25:04 -0400

UPDATE: Channel 7 reports the guy was on his cell phone, didn't see or hear train coming right at him.

Around 12:30 this morning?

Fire @ Govt Center T

sheenaspleena — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:03:55 -0400

There's a fire at Government Center T station.
It was repoerted @ 10am, but they're still announcing it now, without any details.

Kindness on a B trolley

adamg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:20:36 -0400

Nathanael reports how passengers and their trolley's conductor helped a man who had a seizure, falling to the floor and opening a gash on his head at BU West:

... While the situation was sad and scary, for him and by association for the rest of us who but for grace could been in his place, collectively this was the kindest behavior I’ve seen strangers exhibit towards another in our odd little isolationist transit dystopia. In a way, it was the nicest thing that happened today. ...

Ever have one of those commutes?

adamg — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:45:48 -0400

Where a bus driver and a trolley conductor close the doors in your face and then a trolley jolts to a stop every two minutes and it takes you a total of two hours for a commute that normally takes 30 minutes? Punkyblond did.

Zap - ouch!

adamg — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:09:18 -0400

The Globe reports:

Ten soccer game spectators were injured — four of them critically — in Dorchester today when they sought refuge under a gigantic tree that was struck by lightning during a flash storm

I like how the Globe follows that with:

The victims, all males, had burns consistent with lightning strikes, authorities said.

Because you know how people in Dorchester love to make up stories about getting hit by lightning.

Lightning also knocked out Green Line service between Harvard Avenue and Packard's Corner. In fact, it hit a trolley. Amazingly, nobody hurt.

Blecch: B Line

adamg — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:26:10 -0400

Jess Mullen, who lives in Roslindale, just got a job near Packard's Corner in Allston. That means taking a B train out from Copley. And that means being sucker punched by the B line:

... Day 1 (Tuesday): I was pissed because I was waiting at Park St and it felt like the center of the earth. NO TRAINS CAME FOR 20 MINUTES. Then when they did come, they were the D and E before the B.

Day 2 (yesterday): At BU Central, they decided the train would go non-stop to Harvard Ave. Because we were on BU campus, the ground was covered in the previous night's vomit, and the smell wafted up to all the people crowded on the ghetto platform. ...

Green Line ads that make those Legal ads seem tame

adamg — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:52:26 -0400

Betty Noir wonders which ad geniuses came up with the side-by-side ads she saw at a Green Line station this past weekend - one comparing an AirTran flight to a roller-coaster ride, the other for some seafood place - possibly Legal - (yes, them again) that tries to gross you out with "murky bodily-fluid-brown color scheme and postapocalyptic imagery."