Boston Magazine gives us an idea of the man behind the fur. Unlike other bears, he plans to hibernate over the summer. And he hates schoolkids.
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By adamg - 4/4/14 - 2:50 pm
Keytar Pre-Bear? Nat Tarbox took this in 2012.
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By HarryMattison - 4/3/14 - 3:41 pm
April 10 is the first public meeting on the Mass Pike Realignment -- a $260 million project to straighten the Pike in Allston. This will be a great project for drivers going through Allston. We need your help to make sure it's a great project for those of us living, walking, running and cycling in Allston.
Together, let's make this more... Read more
By adamg - 4/3/14 - 11:19 am
Ed. note: I'm still not 100% convinced this is not a left-over April Fool's joke. But I learned about it through an ad in my Facebook news feed last night, and who actually spends money on a prank?
Bridj says it's getting up to launch an alternative to the T that will feature limo buses with plush seats, "an attendant who can provide you... Read more
By adamg - 4/3/14 - 7:43 am
An outbound train breathed its last at Harvard Square around 7 a.m., causing non-expired trains to back up all the way down the line to Quincy.
Ashley stunned us:
I've been riding the T for 26 years and this is my first ever disabled train. I feel like I'm finally a real Bostonian!
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By adamg - 4/1/14 - 5:32 pm
Transit Police report the arrest of Casey Kolenda, 27, on charges he used a magnetic-strip reader to create hundreds of bogus $70 Link Passes starting sometime last year.
According to police:
Authorities identified multiple monthly Link Passes that were purchased legitimately and subsequently used to create hundreds of forged tickets used by riders.
Authorities allege that Kolenda orchestrated a scheme to fraudulently
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By adamg - 4/1/14 - 10:02 am
Shortly after 9 a.m., it seems, fare machines at Red and Green Line stations stopped accepting credit and debit cards, hosing monthly passholders who thought they could just waltz right in, replenish their cards and get on the T.
Just in case riders failed to appreciate the humor of the situation, the T stationed a particularly jocular CSA at Davis, according to Sweetadelinevt:
So
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By adamg - 3/31/14 - 7:59 pm
After just 45 years, the T has disconnected the last vestige of the A Line from the B Line at Packards Corner. Steve Burns photographed the new switchless curve where trolleys could formerly head towards Watertown.
By adamg - 3/31/14 - 8:46 am
Dan Meade reports on riding all four subway lines (and the Silver Line) on their first two nights of extended weekend service:
2:31 AM – On the Red Line, the “Boston T Party” runs into another crew celebrating the late night service. A light gymnastics competition ensues.
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By adamg - 3/30/14 - 8:23 pm
Nahani Otien reports Keytar Bear was killing it tonight at Downtown Crossing.
By adamg - 3/29/14 - 1:17 pm
Ari floats the idea of a short elevated atop Cambridge Street to complete the fabled Red/Blue connector - an idea currently gathering dust on some state shelf due to its cost.
Key to his plan: A portal, filled in decades ago, that once let trolleys go into a tunnel that ultimately led to another tunnel under the harbor to East Boston: The portal, several... Read more
By adamg - 3/29/14 - 6:45 am
Late night at Park Street. Photo by MBTA.
Walkingbostonian reports on the first night of extra weekend service on the T:
B train totally crushed, busier than rush hour, after 2 am, and we had to leave many people behind on all the platforms.
ElmerCat also rode the early-morning rails:
More people than I expected taking Ⓣ after 2 am tonight. Lots of people dancing on the
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By adamg - 3/28/14 - 5:18 pm
At 5:10 p.m., Lauren Finkelstein reported from the outbound side of State Street:
Smoke filling the cars/station on the orange line at state st stop. Everyone being evacuated.
A minute later, the T sent out an alert about "minor" delays due to what it says is a disabled train at State.
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By adamg - 3/28/14 - 4:46 pm
Oh, they've been working on the railroad. Photo by MBTA. See it larger.
As noted earlier, some people left notes on the walls of the Government Center T stop in the hours before it was shut for two years of reconstruction.
Via the MBTA comes this ode, found penned on one of the walls:
Dear Government Center,
Thank you!
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How many times have I passed through your halls?
How Many Seasons?
Blue Line to
By adamg - 3/28/14 - 8:25 am
Transit Police report arresting a Quincy man on charges he pretended to be a cop during an incident at the Quincy Center Red Line stop earlier this month.
According to police, Michael Murray, 33, went up to a car parked in the pick-up area at the station around 5:25 p.m. on March 17:
The suspect male went on to demand the victims produce identification
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By adamg - 3/27/14 - 4:02 pm
Photo of local and state officials and big heads by Eric Haynes, Governor's Office.
Late-night MBTA weekend service starts tomorrow night, with trains and select bus routes running until 3 a.m., as part of a year-long pilot to see if we really want later service on weekend nights.
By adamg - 3/26/14 - 1:23 pm
The City Council voted today to urge the School Committee to hold off action on a proposal to eliminate school buses for 4,500 middle-school students until it can undergo more study.
City councilor Tito Jackson (Roxbury), who sponsored the unanimously approved motion, said making seventh and eighth graders take the T to school instead of traditional school buses could expose them to far more danger... Read more
By adamg - 3/25/14 - 6:17 pm
David Finnerty had some time to get to know fellow riders at South Station.
A train died at Downtown Crossing around 5:30 p.m., as of 6:15 p.m., riders trying to head south were still being thwarted.
Mike Long reports his train just sat outside Charles/MGH for 10 minutes before finally pulling in.
Party Orca surveyed the human gridlock at Downtown Crossing:
Traffic onto the Red Line southbound at DTX is backed up to the escalator to Orange
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By adamg - 3/25/14 - 3:38 pm
The Globe has the details - starts with a 10-cent increase for a single subway ride.
By adamg - 3/24/14 - 7:55 am
The Globe reports that Hyundai-Rotem, the company that delivered new commuter-rail coaches that the T isn't happy with, plans to bid on the $1-billion project to replace superannuated Orange and Red Line trains.
A company official said the commuter-rail coaches proved harder than expected to deliver in part because the American workers they had to hire kinda sucked, even after company officials learned ... Read more
