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By adamg - 10/7/11 - 4:43 pm

A Dunkin' Donuts franchisee goes before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday, Oct. 19, for permission to open an outlet in the station's food court. Currently, commuters have to walk all the way across Atlantic Avenue or struggle to make their way to Federal Street to get their fix.

By adamg - 10/7/11 - 10:05 am

Remains ot the lightRemains of the tube. Photo by Lalunkee.

Lalunkee tweets:

Fluorescent tube at Comm. College Station nearly landed on my head, hit the ground and exploded.

By adamg - 10/7/11 - 8:51 am

In addition to evacuating the trolley station, police also got people out of the parking lot of the office building next to the station.

UPDATE: Carl Stevens at WBZ tweets:

Riverside MBTA stop closed because of a coffee maker.

By adamg - 10/6/11 - 6:43 pm

James Harvey tweeted around 5:30 p.m.:

Just had the Red Line doors open in the middle of the Longfellow Bridge.

Eric Steinhardt, apparently on the same train, reports the doors stayed open only very briefly, not even long enough for him to jump out.

By adamg - 10/6/11 - 8:34 am

Grant MacElhiney tweeted this morning:

There's a guy with a crossbow on the Green Line, car 3635 #SeeSomethingSaySomething #PleaseReportAnySuspiciousActivity

But he switched at Park Street to the Red Line, from which he departed at Harvard, Margaret Peachy tweeted.

By adamg - 10/5/11 - 8:54 am

The Daily Free Press reports the company that's built cell antennas along the Red and Orange lines is extending the service to the underground portions of the Green and Blue lines.

By adamg - 10/3/11 - 4:07 pm

Elizabeth DiRusso posts a photo of a woman and her ferret at the Back Bay Orange Line station, adds:

It would probably be safer if the ferret stood behind the yellow line.

Meanwhile, and totally unrelated, except it also happened at an Orange Line stop, Andrea reports:

Some guy at Sullivan Station just turned into a corner and starting peeing 2 feet away from me.

An MBTA menagerie: Cats, hawks, parrots, turkeys, pet rats, pigeons, snakes.

By adamg - 10/3/11 - 4:03 pm

Beaton A Roslindale man was pulled off a 23 bus and arrested on indecent assault and battery charges Friday after he allegedly moved his hand up the thigh of a woman sitting next to him.

By adamg - 10/3/11 - 1:10 pm

The T explains how to extend the life of your CharlieCard.

By adamg - 10/2/11 - 10:49 pm

Boston Police are looking for two men who held somebody up at knifepoint at the lower Ruggles busway and got away with a laptop, around 10:40 p.m.

Both suspects are black; one was wearing a dark jacket and a red plaid sweater, the other a Chicago White Sox cap. They were last seen running toward Melnea Cass Boulevard. A possible suspect was found at Kerr Place and Kerr Way; the laptop at Melnea Cass and Tremont not long after.

By adamg - 10/2/11 - 9:00 pm

The Globe reports southbound delays on the Orange Line this afternoon were caused when a train had to be stopped and then taken out of service at Chinatown when a passenger kicked out a window.

By adamg - 10/1/11 - 9:57 pm

Jillian Baker tweets:

T driver at BU Central to passengers: come up front to pay your fare, this is the MBTA not the BU shuttle.

By adamg - 9/29/11 - 10:12 pm

Kristen Goodfriend notices an unusual item for sale at the little store inside the Porter Square T stop. Comes in five-day packs.

By adamg - 9/29/11 - 4:02 pm

The Metro reports. Don't worry: Homeland Security paid for the upgrade.

By adamg - 9/23/11 - 8:59 am

The MBTA reports a woman was so intent on trying to light her cigarette at the Needham Center station last night she didn't notice how close she was to the tracks - and the train that was entering the station.

The woman, 44, a worker at the Center Cafe next to the platform, was taken to Beth Israel Hospital with a non-life-threatening head injury and a broken collarbone following the incident around 8:50 p.m.

According to an MBTA Transit Police report, the woman:

By adamg - 9/22/11 - 2:30 pm

Harvard Square, 1912.Harvard Square, 1912. Larger.

By adamg - 9/22/11 - 12:10 pm

Its map might look like this.

By adamg - 9/22/11 - 9:14 am

And that's just to pay for day to day operations, never mind replacing rustbucket trains on the Red and Orange Line, Rich Davey, our new statewide transportation czar, tells the Globe.

By adamg - 9/21/11 - 5:04 pm

A special railfan train in 1986, when the new Orange Line was nearing completion.

By adamg - 9/19/11 - 2:24 pm

Wilkinson A Fall River man was arrested Saturday on charges he took video of at least one man urinating in the men's room at the South Station bus terminal.

Kevin Wilkinson, 44, was caught red-handed with an iPod Nano with the streaming video of a man at a urinal, according to an MBTA Transit Police report. The arresting officer reported there were additional videos on the device, but that he stopped looking because the first video was enough.

The police report says officers approached Wilkinson around 1:20 p.m. after another man reported some guy seemed to be just standing there, videoing urinal users. The report says Wilkinson agreed to let the officers take a look at his cellphone and his Nano. The cellphone had a few photos of "what appeared to be consenting adult males in the nude," but the iPhone had video of what the officers recognized as the bus-terminal men's room and a man using it.

Wilkinson was charged with photographing, videotaping or electronically surveilling a partially nude or nude person.

Innocent, etc.

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