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By adamg - 10/12/23 - 3:07 pm

GBH ponders the new podcast the MBTA started last week, then pulled after just two hours or so.

By adamg - 10/10/23 - 6:23 pm

If it's not the trains or the tracks, what else could go wrong on the T? Try the platforms. The MBTA reports outbound Blue Line trains are bypassing Suffolk Downs because of "a platform maintenance issue," which probably means something on the platform is no longer safe. Riders can take the train to Beachmont, then head over to the other side to get off at the inbound side of Suffolk Downs.

By adamg - 10/3/23 - 5:04 pm

The MBTA announced today that ferry service to and from East Boston and Winthrop will run until Nov. 30.

By adamg - 10/3/23 - 9:46 am

The day dawned bright and sunny, except on the Orange Line, where at 5:29 a.m., the MBTA announced "Shuttle buses replace train service between Malden Center and Community College due to rail maintenance work near Assembly."

This was followed at 6:36 by: Read more.

By adamg - 9/30/23 - 9:05 pm

78 Glendale St. in Dorchester seems like just the place for a large family, with seven bedrooms and three bathrooms. And one Red Line room. Scroll through the interior photos at that link. Keep scrolling. It'll hit you: A wall-size mural of a Red Line train, only one that then extends into the hallway with a door that lets you enter a "train" room that looks like what you'd get if you turned a Red Line car into a room (only with a giant circled F instead of a T).

Via Ari Ofsevit.

By adamg - 9/30/23 - 11:10 am

The MBTA had to roll out buses to replace the Red Line between Alewife and Harvard this morning after a train exhaled its last at Porter Square, the deepest station on the line. Things are now back to what passes for normal these days, the T reports.

By adamg - 9/29/23 - 10:22 am

Tim D. reports on a Green Line experience that is both funny and sad at once: Read more.

By adamg - 9/27/23 - 9:10 am

The MBTA announced today that the Fairmount Line will be free between Oct. 14 and 29, at least to people with CharlieCards - as a possible replacement for the Mattapan Line and Ashmont service on the Red Line, which will be shut then for track repairs. The T will also be running shuttle buses along the Mattapan and Ashmont lines then.

By adamg - 9/26/23 - 11:26 pm

The Globe reports on new wicked slooooow zones on the Green Line Extension, in particular in spots where the rails have gotten slightly closer to each other, an issue that left at least one expert with 40 years of experience scratching his head because rails in use generally widen in distance, not narrow.

By adamg - 9/25/23 - 3:11 pm

Bus/bike lanes on Huntington Avenue between Brigham Circle and Gainborough Street will be made permanent by the end of the year with the addition of red paint, after the MBTA and BTD said today that 39 and CT-2 riders are saving up to two minutes per trip during the morning and evening commutes when compared to the same period in 2019. Read more.

By adamg - 9/25/23 - 2:58 pm
Car on Green Line tracks

Transit Police report on a crash at Brigham Circle around 8 p.m. on Saturday: Read more.

By adamg - 9/25/23 - 10:01 am

The MBTA had to shut Red Line service inbound from Harvard Square after paper in rubbish barrels along the tracks underneath Quincy Street caught fire around 9:30 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 9/24/23 - 9:39 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports Mayor Wu has named Mary Skelton Roberts, an Orange Line rider from Jamaica Plain who works in the clean energy sector, as the city's new representative on the MBTA board of directors.

Although Boston is by far the largest community in the T district, the city had no direct representation on its board in recent years, although Quincy did. Earlier this year, the state budget signed by Gov. Healey gave Boston a seat.

By adamg - 9/22/23 - 11:09 am
Phone with its own seat

Ginnette, who just had foot surgery, hobbled onto the Red Line this morning:

So your phone needs its own seat now?

By adamg - 9/18/23 - 2:44 pm
Car on the Green Line near the BU Bridge

Zeke snapped the car whose driver managed to get it across both inbound and outbound Green Line tracks near the BU Bridge, knocking both sides out of commission.

By adamg - 9/18/23 - 1:24 pm
Photos of Red Line suspect

Photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say started rubbing his penis against a woman from behind on a Red Line train between Charles/MGH and Park Street around 7:55 a.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 9/16/23 - 10:24 am

The Federal Transit Agency is once against threatening to treat the MBTA very harshly after once again learning of incidents in which T workers on the tracks faced possible death. Read more.

By adamg - 9/12/23 - 5:03 pm
Nine minutes for the next train to Alewife on the Red Line

Roving UHub photographer Raymond P. Ausrotas shows us the arrival board at Park Street at rush hour today.

And then he shows us what's under the arrival board at rush hour today: Read more.

By adamg - 9/11/23 - 12:03 pm
Slow zones on the Red Line

Chris Friend points us to Transit Matter's Red Line slow-zone chart, which shows the Red Line now has more delays from slow zones than it did when the MBTA announced speed delays across all the subway lines due to slow zones. Read more.

By adamg - 9/8/23 - 9:44 am

CommonWealth reports that both an outside consultant and an internal study show that contributing to our current slow-transit system is a dysfunctional workplace featuring inadequate staffing, poorly trained workers and bad communication. And that's a key reason the number of slow zones hasn't decreased and why new GM Phil Eng has brought in a bunch of outsiders to try to right the ship, um, tracks.

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