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Orange Line passenger charged as screaming cop biter

By adamg - 3/7/12 - 4:51 pm

YusufBoston Police report an off-duty cop returning home from a detail at the Garden last night had to subdue an out-of-control passenger who, after refusing to stop harassing other passengers, turned on him and sent him to the hospital with minor injuries.

According to police, the cop, heading toward his car at Forest Hills around 11 p.m., perked up when he noticed Aisha Abdi Yusuf, 22, screaming at some men at the other end of their train car. When he asked her - "quietly," police say - to knock it off and sit down, she turned on him:

What is it about the red lights at the Silver Line tunnel that makes them so invisible to drivers?

By adamg - 3/7/12 - 4:13 pm

Like rolling brownouts, outages on the T get spread around

By adamg - 3/5/12 - 5:55 pm

This afternoon, it's homebound commuter-rail riders at South Station sharing a very special experience thanks to switch issues. TH sighs:

When I die and go to hell, I'll just end up back on the MBTA and every day will be Monday.

The T doesn't like getting up on Monday morning any more than you do

By adamg - 3/5/12 - 9:12 am

Broken trolleys on the Green Line, borked signals on the Orange Line, non-functioning lights on the Red Line at Park Street. But at least the Blue Line was working just fine.

Oh, and don't be so smug, morning drivers: Storrow inbound was FUBAR.

Who gets screwed when the T cuts service and hikes fares?

By adamg - 3/2/12 - 2:57 pm

The poor, of course. Some maps and stats to prove it.

T advocates should expect little sympathy from western Mass. legislators

By adamg - 3/2/12 - 12:56 pm

A college student from western Massachusetts wrote to state Sen. Stan Rosenberg, D-Amherst, asking he join efforts to help the MBTA stave off fare hikes and service cuts by doing something about Big Dig-related debt the state put on the T. Rosenberg replied:

Why Allston/Brighton needs a commuter-rail stop

By adamg - 3/1/12 - 7:52 am

Some major new development, from the New Balance land in Brighton to BU in Allston means the area really needs a stop on the Worcester Line - especially given how it lost all three of its stops to the turnpike construction, not to mention the A Line, TC writes.

Sometimes the Red Line is wicked creepy

By adamg - 2/29/12 - 8:38 pm

Those eyes, those eyes!

Nancy looked down tonight and went "What the hell?"

Trash fire at Davis slows Red Line

By adamg - 2/29/12 - 7:45 pm

Kristina Cary reports a trash fire means problems on the Red Line in Cambridge and Somerville tonight.

Could this be the day the T's snow-survival plan goes into effect?

By adamg - 2/29/12 - 2:13 pm

Check the T's Winter Weather page often.

Fabled beast spotted, ridden on Green Line

By adamg - 2/29/12 - 9:48 am

UPDATE: MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo says there were no four-car trains in operation on the Green Line this morning; only two- and three-car ones.

Laura Longoria reports she rode on a four-car Green Line train today:

I got on it at Park St and rode it 2 stops to Arlington, it was a Riverside train.

Times like these call for superheroes

By adamg - 2/28/12 - 11:38 pm

Mr. Snowplow Running off Big Dig Debt. Photo by Rob Bellinger.

The T Riders Union organized a pack of superheroes to fight evil service cuts and fare hikes at an MBTA hearing in Somerville.

Copyright Rob Bellinger. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Only one more weekend of shuttle buses for Red Line riders north of Harvard

By adamg - 2/27/12 - 11:17 am

The T reports its Red Line track work between Harvard and Alewife will be completed after this coming weekend, which, as the T notes, means this is one project coming in on time and on budget.

Photos: Musicians on the T

By adamg - 2/25/12 - 1:41 pm

Fred Palmerino has posted photos of buskers in action in 1999 and 2000. Any still performing?

Via Ride Like Charlie.

Dan Grabauskas could wind up in Honolulu

By adamg - 2/24/12 - 7:24 pm
Grabauskas

Grabauskas has a lei-away plan.

Honolulu is building an el (a $5.3-billion el) and the people in charge want to hire our own Dan Grabauskas to oversee it. Wonder if he gets an SUV out of the deal.

His current boss, at the Bronner Group, couldn't be more thrilled:

Hitler reacts to the T's plans to cut service

By adamg - 2/24/12 - 2:51 pm

Some subtitles NSFW. Plus, you know, Nazis. Via the Phoenix:

The Green Line is enough to drive riders to drink

By adamg - 2/24/12 - 11:12 am

Paul Levy provides the proof, with a video survey of the secret nip burial ground at Reservoir:

Teen charged with menacing bus, cab drivers with a pellet gun

By adamg - 2/24/12 - 9:56 am

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a 14-year-old on charges he flashed a gun at an MBTA bus driver at Warren and Howland streets and then did the same thing moments later to a cab driver who refused to let him and his three pals in his cab.

According to MBTA police, the alleged gunboy and friends got off the 23 bus's rear exit, then walked to the front, where the kid with the gun "tapped the door of the bus, displaying what appeared to be a black handgun." In response, the driver floored it, fearing for his life, a police report says.

Not long after, police found a cab driver, who reported:

As he was stopped by Crawford Street and Warren Street he refused several youths from getting into his cab, one of them pulled out a black colored hand gun and pointed it at him and then tapped it on the window. He said fearing for his life he drove away and called 911.

Boston Police found the four hanging out on Blue Hill Avenue:

Governor proposes one of those little paper-cut bandages for MBTA hemorrhaging

By adamg - 2/24/12 - 9:27 am

Patrick says let's give roughly $40 million in unspent snow-plowing money to the MBTA, but what about next year?

When Mexican wrestlers move to Boston and take up the saxophone

By adamg - 2/23/12 - 5:34 pm

 

Elizabeth DiRusso spotted this scary dude at Park Street this afternoon.

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