Providence Line
Northeast Corridor vanishes into pit of dispair
By adamg - 12/19/11 - 7:33 pmDowned power lines somewhere in the Canton area mean no Amtrak service between Boston and New York and, of course, massive delays on the Providence/Stoughton Line that have left stranded commuters hoping for the buses the T is promising.
Another person struck and killed by train in Hyde Park
By adamg - 9/16/11 - 6:34 pmThis time by an outbound commuter-rail train on the Providence Line, about 5:20 p.m. just outbound from the commuter-rail station, AlertNewEngland reports.
Channel 4 reports the woman, whom the MBTA said was trespassing on the tracks, was hit next to the Boston Renaissance Charter School. The school sent out e-mail to parents and staff that the woman had no affiliation with the school and did not get onto the tracks from school property.
Trains in both directions were stopped, and extensive delays persist as of 7:30 p.m. As passengers sat and grew restive, one Providence Line conductor went on the PA, Lauren Gallagher tweets:
The conductor simply announced "I apologize for you losing 2 hours of your life, but this girl lost all of hers."
In August, Benjy Barlatier, 28, of Hyde Park, was killed by an inbound Amtrak train while standing on the tracks at the station.
Person found shot near commuter-rail tracks in Canton
By adamg - 4/20/11 - 3:00 pmMBTA Transit Police report finding somebody with an apparent gunshot wound this afternoon. Two outbound Providence/Stoughton trains from South Station were delayed; service is back to normal otherwise.
In the dark on commuter rail
By adamg - 1/26/11 - 5:14 pm
Mary McVeigh took this photo around 4:50 p.m. from her seat on the 811 train to Providence. The train that stopped all of a sudden when the engine died 30 minutes earlier. The train with no lights or heat. But, she adds:
At least we can watch the snow fall.
T alerts pages lit up like Christmas trees this morning
By adamg - 12/7/09 - 9:15 amBroken trains on the Red Line and Providence Line, signal problems on the Blue Line, a broken rail on the Needham Line (a broken rail? What'd they do? Taunt it mercilessly until it collapsed in a sobbing heap on the ground?), speed restrictions on the Kingston/Plymouth Line. Amazingly, no delays reported on the Green Line.
It's bad when the T tells you to find another way to get to work
By adamg - 8/18/09 - 7:09 amThe Providence Line inbound is all messed up this morning due to a disabled train at Ruggles.
Live report from a dead train
By adamg - 8/14/09 - 7:33 amBenjamin Morton is onboard the 7:35 a.m. train from Providence, which as I type is at least 30 minutes late. He tweets:
"we got another couple things to try, but no progress yet, hopefully we get it moving soon" - 32min late
Add concrete ties to the list of things to worry about on commuter rail
By adamg - 7/28/09 - 8:53 amOver at CommonWealth, Jack Sullivan reports the ties that keep MBTA commuter-rail trains on the tracks south of Boston are falling apart:
... The concrete ties were supposed to last 50 years, but many are falling apart after less than 10. ... MBTA officials say they have identified defects in about 4,000 concrete ties on the two Old Colony commuter rail lines to Boston and on the Providence-to-Boston line, but they admit the problem could affect as many as 150,000 ties, equal to more than 56 miles of track. The cost of repairing the ties is unclear, but projections using numbers from similar projects elsewhere yield an estimate that could run as high as $100 million. ...
WiFi prankster on the Providence Line
By adamg - 9/25/08 - 9:29 amLooks like somebody with a grudge changed the name of the wireless access point on one train out of Providence.
Super-angry commuter-rail conductors
By adamg - 8/28/08 - 9:08 pmMichaela reports:
I've taken the commuter rail from Providence to Back Bay several times in the past few weeks for internship interviews, and one thing constant with my trips are that the commuter rail workers, especially female, are super angry and pissed off at everything! ...
