The Amateur Planner fulminates a bit on how the 34E bus between Forest Hills and Walpole has to go on a lengthy expedition through the driving morass that is the Dedham Mall; wonders why it doesn't just drop off/pick up passengers on Washington Street at the mall entrance:
The loop-the-loop to access the mall unnecessarily lengthens the route, costs the T money, costs passengers
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David Parsons used slit-scan photography to take this unusual view of a Green Line trolley on Beacon Street in Brookline.
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Some switch seized up this morning, causing delays on both inbound and outbound trains at South Station.
From close shaves to abandoned heads to a guy riding his motor scooter while riding a train, we saw some weird stuff on the T this year. Here's a sampling (and, hmm, all those examples are from the Orange Line: Red Line, Blue Line, it's time to pick up the pace!)
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Transit Police report a man on the inbound tracks at Roxbury Crossing was hit and killed by a train around 6:25 p.m. Police described him as white and apparently in his 30s.
The Boston Fire Department reports the man was on the tracks just before the station and that after the train stopped, firefighters escorted passengers off the train to the platform.
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What follows is a far-from-complete list of MBTA delays this year - just the ones I set to rhyme:
Snow flies, Red Line dies, 1/2/14
Trains fail, commuters wail, 2/10/14
Trains die, riders sigh, 2/11/14
Trains succumb, riders are glum, 2/11/14
Riders fume and boil as trains leave this mortal coil, 2/19/14
Boston Metro reports on an incident involving a Route1 driver and an unruly passenger on Mass. Ave. near Washington Street on Saturday.
Crash scene. Photo by R.S.Y. Buchanan.
Around 6:15 near the Park Street crossing, R.S.Y. Buchanan reports. He adds the driver of the car got out before the crash.
Transit Police report arresting a Lynn man on charges he punched out a cab driver who couldn't understand his drunken rambling and ordered him out of the cab.
According to police, James Rogers, 52, got into the cab at Wonderland station shortly before 11 a.m. on Thursday and:
Began to mumble incoherently. Rogers apparently intoxicated was asked by the victim to repeat the address
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Transit historian and Harvard University librarian Foster Palmer narrates the trip, with a brief stopover at Barry's Ledge, once a gravel pit, then a never-was driving range.
H/t Tim Murphy.
Ben Chan asks:
My Charliecard went through the washing machine. Any idea if it's still durable and good to continue to use?
Transit Police report a woman, about 34, was on the tracks at the Attleboro commuter-rail stop when she was hit and killed by an outbound train around 9 a.m.
Both commuter-rail and Amtrak service were halted. Police and the DA's office are investigating why she was on the tracks at the time, but foul play is not suspected.... Read more
H gives us a head's up on the situation on the Red Line.
Meanwhile, Dana Busch wonders where the car is that left a hub cap on the platform at Porter Square.
Transit Police report a man, believed to be in his 40s, was on the inbound side of the tracks near West Gloucester station when he was hit and killed by an inbound commuter-rail train around 6:30 p.m.
Police and the DA's office are investigating what the man was doing on the tracks.
Yesterday, a woman was hit by a train in Bridgewater, but... Read more
A shame there's no Twitter-controlled Christmas trees at Hynes station, because that might lighten the place up a bit now that the regular lights have failed, as Derrick shows us.
Above ground, meanwhile, traffic lights have gone on strike in the area of South Station.... Read more
A Green Line inspector could be in hot water for an incident on the Green Line this morning in which a door panel on a trolley suddenly fell off the train, a spokesman says:
A Green Line inspector is facing disciplinary action for failing to ensure that the trolley door was secured in the closed position before the train proceeded to Park St. Because of
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T workers piling up the sandbags. Photo by MBTA.
With the Muddy River rising fast, around 5:20 p.m., the MBTA shut the Riverside Line between Kenmore and Fenway and workers rushed to the portal just past Fenway to begin laying sandbags to keep the Muddy out of the Green Line, in two separate temporary dams.
Around 6:30 p.m., the Muddy River reached 16.4 feet - 1.4 feet above the flood stage at which... Read more
The Boston City Archives has begun digitizing its collection of photos of Boston Elevated Railway photos, including a set showing construction of the North Station/Lechmere section, such as this photo of Haymarket Square on March 24, 1909.
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