Even with extra subway trains and more commuter-rail coaches, the T groaned under the load of the larger than expected crowds heading to the Women's March on the Common this morning. Read more.
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By adamg - 1/21/17 - 4:33 pm
Maverick station, 10:48 a.m. Photo by Max Grinnell.
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By adamg - 1/20/17 - 5:12 pm
A Blue Line train decided rush hour would be a good time to die, and it did, at State Street.
By adamg - 1/20/17 - 3:10 pm
MassDOT says the T will provide more frequent service on subway lines and more coaches on commuter lines tomorrow to get people to and from the Women's March for America, which starts from the Common at 11 a.m.
Blue Line riders, however, should allow more time than they usually would to get to the Common because that line will terminate at State for maintenance work between there and Bowdoin.
By adamg - 1/19/17 - 5:45 pm
The T is reporting "moderate" delays on the Red Line because of a train that flatlined at Charles/MGH.
By adamg - 1/19/17 - 3:46 pm
A federal judge today upheld a former Green Line operator's verdict in a discrimination case against the MBTA saying that, if anything, the discrimination against her was even worse than shown by evidence admitted at her trial, because the T failed to act on an earlier finding she had been discriminated against. Read more.
By adamg - 1/19/17 - 2:45 pm
The Bangor Daily News reports Gov. Paul "D-Money" LePage's administration is trying to take $7 million out of a state fund so that the Maine Military Authority can finish refurbishing 32 MBTA buses under a contract for which it seriously underestimated the cost.
The authority - originally set up to get Maine a piece of some sweet Humvee repair work for the military - bid $19 million for the project, then laid off most of the workers on it when it realized how much money the work would actually cost.
By kensavage - 1/18/17 - 8:05 am
What's the easiest and quickest way to get from North Station to South Station?
Currently I take the orange to the red line but that is usually a 20 min affair in the morning and worse at 5pm.
I'm thinking of getting an electric scooter or boosted board.
By adamg - 1/15/17 - 3:41 pm
If BU and Northeastern have Green Line stops named for them, why not Emerson? Three students in a civic design and art class at Emerson have collected more than 700 names on an online petition urging the T to rename the Boylston stop as Emerson College. Read more.
By adamg - 1/14/17 - 9:15 am
A group of people taking inspiration from the old Guardian Angels have started patrolling Boston and the T: The Boston Arch Angels. In recruiting fliers posted on the Red Line, they vow to deter crime, make citizens arrests and provide first aid.
H/t Ron Newman.
By adamg - 1/12/17 - 11:45 am
Who'll stop the rain? Not the creaky infrastructure at the Downtown Crossing T stop. Mark Novak captured some T worker's ingenious solution for stopping the water plotzing on people's head in a stairway between the Red and Orange Lines. Hopefully, somebody remembers to empty it before it gives way, though.
By adamg - 1/12/17 - 10:20 am
A trolley that has gone to meet its maker at Boylston Street is causing "moderate" delays, the T advises.
By adamg - 1/10/17 - 8:08 pm
Gabs spotted this ad - and the associated commentary - on the Red Line today.
By adamg - 1/9/17 - 8:44 am
Shortly before 7 a.m., Tatiana M.R. Johnson got to Stony Brook, took a look at the hordes on the Orange Line platform and issued the alarm:
hey folks just go home the orange line is a disaster
By adamg - 1/6/17 - 12:37 pm
Two men got into a fight on an outbound Orange Line train approaching North Station shortly before 12:30 p.m. The loser got punched in the eye; the winner fled out the station and onto the street, where he melted away into the crowds.
By adamg - 1/6/17 - 9:12 am
The T had to hold a train from Braintree at JFK/UMass so Transit Police could remove a woman who refused to put out her cigarette, filling her car with the smell of smoke.
By adamg - 1/6/17 - 8:16 am
A deceased train at Sullivan Square is gumming up the works on the Orange Line.
By adamg - 1/5/17 - 5:32 pm
Ed. note: I originally linked to a story that made it sound like the state wanted to ditch Keolis.
The Globe reports that should Charlie Baker run for re-election and win, the state won't extend Keolis's contract past its current 2022 expiration date. But officials say that doesn't mean Keolis can't rebid to keep running commuter rail, just that the state would want to hear other bids as well.
By adamg - 1/5/17 - 10:21 am
From Morales's wanted poster.
UPDATE, 3:58 p.m. WBZ reports he's been captured in Somerville.
UPDATE: Cambridge Police report the suspect may be escaped Cambridge desperado James Walker Morales.
Police searching for the guy who held up the Bank of America branch at 772 Mass. Ave. around 9:30 a.m. halted the Red Line so they could search cars for him - because they know that bank robbers like to try to escape on the Red Line when they don't have a getaway car.
By adamg - 1/3/17 - 9:35 pm
The T is reporting "moderate" delays on the Riverside Line due to problems at Kenmore Square; initially reported as a dead train, but now as a more generalized power problem.
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