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By adamg - 8/1/23 - 4:38 pm
People waiting for the ferry to East Boston

With the Blue Line going nowhere fast, riders headed over to the ferry, which got jammed. Photo by Will Woodring.

The MBTA reports delays of up to 30 minutes on the free Blue Line due to a signal issue at Orient Heights; says the signal department is on scene trying to fix the problem.

By adamg - 7/31/23 - 10:43 am

Bri chronicles delays on the Red Line caused by problems on four different trains in the span of just one hour yesterday evening: Read more.

By adamg - 7/30/23 - 2:18 pm
Truck stuck under the Freeport Street Red Line bridge

Another Gay Boston Realtor, who spotted a storrowing at the Red Line bridge over Freeport Street earlier this month, got stuck in traffic again this afternoon when the driver of a beefy 18-wheeler tried his luck - and lost.

By adamg - 7/29/23 - 6:11 pm
Images of man wanted for shooting at Nubian Square station

Photo of shooting and suspect via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for Andre Parham-Rankin, 27, whom they say fired a single bullet at somebody at the Nubian Square bus depot, but missed, around 5:40 a.m. on July 20. Read more.

By adamg - 7/29/23 - 2:21 pm
Commonwealth Avenue near Strathmore Road under water

A roving UHub photographer who decided discretion was the better part of not getting soaked, shows us the view out his window of Commonwealth Avenue near Strathmore Road shortly before 2 p.m. He adds: Read more.

By adamg - 7/28/23 - 11:54 am

The MBTA reports that after 12 days of work replacing track the Green Line will re-open for service tomorrow morning in Brighton and Allston.

The T says workers put in some 2,800 feed of track at Blandford Street, Packards Corner, and between Harvard Avenue and Griggs Street, as well as replaced worn out wooden ties and the like.

By adamg - 7/27/23 - 11:37 am

The MBTA announced today that General Manager Phillip Eng has brought in a series of lieutenants from his days of running railroads in New York to try to turn the T into a fully functioning and safe transit system. Read more.

By adamg - 7/26/23 - 3:37 pm

The MBTA announced today it's opening a temporary CharlieCard store in the State Transportation Building at 10 Park Plaza because of intractable air-conditioning problems that forced it to shut the normal CharlieCard store in Downtown Crossing earlier this month. Read more.

By adamg - 7/25/23 - 4:35 pm
Third rail on fire in the rain

From video by Timothy Dunn.

The MBTA shut power on the Red Line in both directions at JFK/UMass after a third rail caught fire just before the station around 4:20 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 3:11 pm

The state and Berklee College of Music say they free musical performances outside the Aquarium and Wonderland stops twice a week will help take commuters' minds off what are now regular delays due to wire inspections on top of the delays caused by all the slow zones and all the crowding caused by people who normally drive but who have to deal with the Sumner Tunnel shutdown. Read more.

By adamg - 7/23/23 - 8:43 pm

Around 7 p.m., the MBTA announced inbound delays of 20 minutes due to "a train with a power problem at Copley," or what Chen Cao described as "wires down" just inbound from Copley - about 40 minutes after similar delays due to a dead trolley at Arlington. Read more.

By adamg - 7/22/23 - 11:01 am

NBC Boston reports Boston firefighters were able to free the woman around 5 p.m. on Friday, after which Boston EMS transported her to a local hospital. The T notes it did not move the train until after the woman was freed.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 3:33 pm

Transit Police report arresting Kristen Kulch, 37, at the Wellington Orange Line stop around 2 p.m. yesterday for allegedly punching an elderly man and woman repeatedly after they asked if she could move her bag so they could sit together. Read more.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 10:53 am
Truck peeled back in Dorchester

Another Gay Boston Realtor came upon a prime example of storrowing at the Red Line bridge over Freeport Street in Boston, around 10:25 this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 7/20/23 - 10:57 am

The T, which said it was going to fix the long-running, high-squealing slow zone between Tufts Medical Center and Back Bay when it shut the whole line for a month last year, said yesterday it's actually fixed the problems along the tracks, and this time it means it, Streetsblog Massachusetts reports.

By adamg - 7/20/23 - 10:17 am

The MBTA reports 10-minute delays on the Red Line due to a deceased outbound train at Charles/MGH.

By adamg - 7/16/23 - 3:36 pm

An annoyed citizen in Hyde Park files a 311 complaint about the overnight noise from the MBTA's Readville commuter-rail yard: Read more.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 5:01 pm

Red Line woes just never end. The MBTA reports delays of up to 20 minutes on the Red Line because not one, but two trains had to be pulled from service at Braintree on account of being deceased.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 10:18 am

The wiring fire on a train at Charles/MGH this morning wasn't the only, um, excitement on the Red Line this morning. Owen reported:

I’m in red line car car 01717. As the train came into Davis station the ceiling at the very rear of the platform started crumbling with debris falling across the platform and a large cloud of dust. It send me and a handful of others running in case of larger debris.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 8:12 am
Firefighters at Charles/MGH

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to the Charles/MGH Red Line station for a fire under the last car of an outbound train around 5:45 a.m. Read more.

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