Update: Authorities have identified the victim as Gayle Johnson.
Investigators now believe a Route 110 bus hit a woman crossing Broadway shortly before 7 p.m., then dragged her down the street, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports:
Evidence developed through the night suggests that an MBTA bus struck the 52-year-old Revere woman who died in the area of 400 Broadway yesterday evening. He did
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Where's Waldo? Not getting on the Red Line at Park Street, that's for sure. Photo by Shumita Basu.
The T's now acknowledging that a dead train at JFK/UMass means "severe" delays. As in 30 and 45-minute delays.
UPDATE, 5:30 p.m. Problems persist - The Braintree-bound are being told to take any train they can jam into to JFK for a shuttle bus.
At South Station, Kate Birney reports:
just got pulled off braintree to alewife & routed to
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couldn't get any lazier, consider this "E"xcuse alert from earlier tonight:
Green Line E branch experiencing minor delays due to technical problem
Affected stops:
Lechmere Station
Science Park Station
North Station
Haymarket Station
Government Center StationLast updated: Dec 9 2013 7:39 PM
Technical problem - yep that's really informing the passengers. I'm sure glad the T has spent... Read more
Transit Police report that around 10 a.m. today, Officer Lisa Murawski-Dupont managed to convince a pit bull that commuter-rail tracks running between Savin Hill and JFK/UMass were not the best place for him to be.
According to police, Murawski-Dupont was at the Savin Hill T stop when somebody alerted her there was a dog on the commuter rail tracks.
Officer Murawski-Dupont immediately proceeded to
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If you're suddenly realizing you left your laptop and your backpack under a seat on the Green Line last night or this morning, well, every other Lechmere rider now hates you.
Red Line riders are having issues as well, due to an unconscious person having to be taken off a train at Park Street.
Two Transit Police officers couldn't keep a large man from flinging himself off the Orange Line bridge over the Mystic River early on Nov. 17, but they didn't give up on him - ultimately helping him out of the cold water and into the back of a waiting ambulance.
Officers Eli Bojorquez and Kenneth Phillips will be given formal commendations at a ceremony next Wednesday... Read more
6:33 a.m.: Dead train on the Braintree line. Inbound, of course.
Mike, who took the above photo, asks:
Red Line failing during rush hour. On what planet is 8 mins ok? Full trains are full.
A T alert went out around 6:50 a.m. for a dead Red Line train at Downtown Crossing.
You get a delay! And you get a delay! And you get a delay!
Trains lapsed into unconsciousness on the Red Line and the C, D and E trolley lines. But the Orange Line saved the worst for last: A dead train at Ruggles that sat there for nearly 20 minutes before operators got the idea to get the train behind it to push it... Read more
The Globe reports the state and corporate sponsors are kicking in the bucks to keep subways and 15 bus lines running until 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday mornings in a pilot project.
The MBTA said today we took 36.23 million trips on the system in October - the highest monthly number since the system was founded in 1964 out of the old MTA, and 3% higher than the World Series-less October, 2012.
Average daily ridership for October increased by 4.3% over the same month last year, and totaled 1.382 million passenger trips per weekday. As with the
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"Moderate" delays due to a dead trolley at Park Street around 7:45 a.m. A few minutes later, Phil R. reported:
My Green Line train was just evacuated at Kenmore for no reason.
UPDATE, 8:12 a.m. Elizabeth Rioux tweets:
6 outbound trains stacked up at Copley behind a disabled train. It's like we reinvent the Monday commute every single week.
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A.P. Blake captures authors Jeremy Fox (l) and Andrew Elder at Downtown Crossing today, celebrating the 105th anniversary of the Washington Street tunnel, which today forms the downtown core of the Orange Line (they're holding a copy of their new book about the Orange Line).
Compare the columns and supports behind them with this 1909 photo from the same station (then called Winter Street)... Read more
Miles Taylor recounts his record-breaking trip with British traveler Adham Fisher. But not in the order they actually made the trip - no tips for would-be record breakers.
Green (B Branch): This was, in my opinion, the deal breaker for the trip. The B was bunching, first of all. There were two trains in a row, then shortly behind was another two trains. We
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Smoky Tufts platform. Photo by BFD.
A fire in an electrical room just beyond the inbound platform at Tufts Medical Center brought the Orange Line to an abrupt end this morning.
The Boston Fire Department reports a 15,000-volt line began to smolder around 10:10 a.m. Firefighters had to bring in dry-powder extinguishers to put out the fire - and several "smoke ejectors" to clear the smoke out of the station.... Read more
MikeHeXt tweets:
Ugh Disabled southbound Red Line train at Kendall causing northbound delays too. Here we sit.
Two people were held up around 10:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the commuter-rail stop off LaGrange Street, near Centre.
The suspect is described as a black male, 16-18, who showed a gun, got his victims' phones and wallets and then jumped into a waiting car. The car, a black Accord with tinted windows, was last seen heading outbound on Centre, towards Spring Street.... Read more
Not at the same time, at least. The most recent: Westbound at Park Street.
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