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Police: Guy swigging a 40 and smoking a cigarette at Forest Hills turned out to be wanted for attempted murder

By adamg - 8/17/12 - 9:06 am

TaylorMBTA Transit Police report a man they initially intended to just ticket for drinking a malt beverage and smoking a cigarette at Forest Hills last night found himself under arrest when they discovered he was wanted in Chelsea for assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault.

According to a police report, around 9:30 p.m., an officer making a routine swing through the area around the 39 bus berth under the overpass noticed:

[A] male party, later identified as Ronaldo Taylor, sitting on a retaining wall behind the Inspector's booth. I approached Taylor to see what he was doing. As I was approaching him, I observed he had an open container of a 40 ounce malt beverage and he was smoking a cigarette.

Amtrak train vs. car in Medford: Train wins, car, Lowell Line commuters lose

By adamg - 8/16/12 - 9:05 am

Crushed car in Medford. Photo by Alex Formanek.Crushed car in Medford. Photo by Alex Formanek.

Cambridge meter maid shuts down Red Line

By adamg - 8/15/12 - 2:08 pm

The MBTA evacuated Alewife, stopped the Red Line at Davis and brought in explosives-detection equipment this afternoon after workers discovered a suspicious package on a Red Line train.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo reports the device turned out to be "a ticketing device used by city of Cambridge parking-enforcement officers."

"Better safe than really sorry," Cambridge City Councilor Minka vanBeuzekom tweets.

Designer proposes T map based on trip time

By adamg - 8/15/12 - 10:02 am

Time map

'Weather problem' shut Wollaston station during the morning storm

By adamg - 8/15/12 - 9:55 am

Via BostInno.

Hyde Park Avenue by Forest Hills station was tire high, one commuter reported, but the station itself had only the usual mini-torrents that come with pretty much any rain storm.

Next train in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ... minutes

By adamg - 8/15/12 - 7:47 am

New sign at South Station. Photo by MBTA.New sign at South Station. Photo by MBTA.

This MBTA delay could last two years

By adamg - 8/14/12 - 8:25 pm

BostInno reports on the ever slipping schedule for 75 new double-decker coaches for commuter rail. The Korean vendor blames US regulations, which apparently it didn't bother to consult before winning a bid to build the cars.

Citizen complaint of the day: Taggers must really think Roslindale commuters are stupid

By adamg - 8/14/12 - 10:14 am

An incensed citizen posts a photo of a couple of obscene drawings at the Roslindale Square commuter-rail stop, one of which also has a text explanation, in case you couldn't figure out what the artist was trying to draw.

Fitchburg Line train derails in Belmont; no injuries

By adamg - 8/14/12 - 9:20 am

MBTA Transit Police report an outbound train derailed a bit in Belmont Center. MBTA and Belmont Police helped passengers off the train and back to the station to await buses to take them the rest of the way. "NO INJURIES," Transit Police tweeted.

Channel 25 reports T officials called the wheel slipping off the track "a relatively minor incident."

Woman claims GPS told her to drive on Beacon Street trolley tracks

By adamg - 8/14/12 - 8:36 am
Car on Green Line tracks

Photo via MBTA.

UPDATE: Seems to be a national epidemic.

The MBTA reports a woman who says she was only following her GPS's directions wound up stuck on Green Line trolley tracks in Brookline early Monday.

According to MBTA Transit Police, a South Attleboro resident was driving in Brookline shortly after 1 a.m. on Monday when she consulted her GPS to see what she should do next:

Sure, we've all thought it - this guy did it, allegedly

By adamg - 8/13/12 - 11:22 am

Newton Patch reports police are looking for a guy who allegedly slapped a cell phone out of man's hands on the Riverside line this morning - and slapped his face for good measure. The phone slapper then bounded out of the train.

MBTA does its part to encourage walking for exercise

By adamg - 8/13/12 - 8:44 am

Major flustercluck on the Green Line this morning thanks to a "track problem" somewhere between Kenmore and Park that the T said meant only 15-minute delays, but which actual riders tweeted were more like an hour - when they could get on a packed train at all, which people actually on those packed trains emphasized might not be much of a blessing, given how the T seemed to have rolled out its fleet of trolleys without air conditioning this morning.

At 8:39, Katherine Bragg tweeted:

When the T sells station naming rights and Ruggles becomes Pringles

By adamg - 8/12/12 - 9:55 am

It'll look like this.

Better know a Milton, driving edition

By adamg - 8/10/12 - 12:12 pm

Lataria Milton is the MBTA driver charged with getting angry and running her bus into a meter maid and several cars. Latarian Milton is the then-7-year-old charged with getting angry and crashing his grandmother's SUV into a curb and several cars.

The train wheezed into Ruggles, began belching smoke and died

By adamg - 8/10/12 - 8:42 am

Fortunately for passengers on the belchy commuter-rail train at Ruggles around 8 a.m., they could all de-train and continue on their way on the Orange Line. Interestingly, not long after, Anthony Bonaceto tweeted, Back Bay station began filling with smoke. Maybe Puff the Magic Loco was on its way to the yard?

Bus driver faces felony charge for allegedly running into city parking supervisor

By adamg - 8/9/12 - 6:15 pm

MiltonAn MBTA bus driver is scheduled for arraignment in Roxbury District Court tomorrow on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after she allegedly ran down a Boston parking supervisor trying to give her a parking ticket in Kenmore Square this morning.

Moody: River of debt could make us downgrade T bonds

By adamg - 8/9/12 - 12:23 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports the bond-rating agency is reviewing MBTA finances, with a possible eye toward reducing its bond rating, which could lead to still higher costs for the T if it tries to borrow money. The T's reliance on state sales-tax revenue and pass bond-financing schemes are of particular concern, the Journal reports.

T bus driver trying to evade ticket in Kenmore Square plows into BTD supervisor, cars

By adamg - 8/9/12 - 8:50 am

Crash aftermath. Photo by Susan Zalkind.Crash aftermath. Note cluster of meter maids on right. Photo by Susan Zalkind.

A city transportation worker is in the hospital this morning following a confrontation with an MBTA bus driver in Kenmore Square that ended with the driver plowing into the worker - and several parked cars - WBZ reports.

The collisions, which happened around 8:30 a.m., started as an incident in which a BTD supervisor told the driver - eating breakfast - to move her bus out of a left-turn lane and the driver refused, WBZ says.

Kenmore Square quickly became a giant parking lot as emergency vehicles and police flooded the area.

Nancy Chen at WHDH reports the driver was noshing on a bagel and drinking coffee when she was asked to move.

Another photo of the scene.

Finally, somebody's photographed every single T stop

By adamg - 8/7/12 - 10:54 pm

Who has done this amazing thing? The Subway Nut, of course - part of a far larger project to photograph every single subway station in North America.

Via Al Hood.

MBTA - let your people go

By toblerone617 - 8/6/12 - 5:19 pm

Anyone want to help get the MBTA to get rid of the closed door policy on the Green Line?

Checked and no one else had set up Facebook page so I did. Welcome any and all suggestions. It's only going to get worse when school starts in the fall.

URL is www.facebook.com/MbtaLetYourPeopleGo

Thanks.

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