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Clustertrain: Orange and Green lines in trouble this morning

By adamg - 1/25/10 - 9:54 am

Dead Orange Line train at North Station. Phil R. reports in from Reservoir:

No working signals & MBTA personnel at every stop between here and (at least) Newton Ctr. NOT A GOOD SIGN

Idiot nearly shuts down North Station

By adamg - 1/6/10 - 7:18 pm

MBTA Transit Police tweet somebody left a threatening message on a North Station restroom wall this afternoon, but that a search that started just as the evening rush was getting underway found no device and that as a result, "all service resuming normal operations."

Another day, another Green Line problem

By roadman - 12/2/09 - 5:30 pm

Current alert from the T web page:

Green Line service is experiencing 10-15 minute delays due to a switch problem at North Station. 12/2/2009 3:59 PM

My sources indicate that the problem is due to a train that derailed on a switch. As a result, all eastbound service is currently being turned at either Park Street or Government Center , and that passengers on trains entering Park Street are being advised to take the Orange Line to Haymarket and North Station.

They are currently setting up a Lechmere to North Station shuttle train, and buses will be put in place between North Station and Government Center.

Update as of 4:40 pm - My sources now indicate they will be running shuttle buses, not a shuttle train, between Lechmere and North Station.

Another Green Line accident: Several hurt at North Station

By adamg - 11/15/09 - 12:08 am

Channel 7 reports a driver in a westbound trolley stopped short tonight, sending passengers flying. Interestingly, the trolley continued to Government Center, where some passengers were removed on stretchers, the station says.

Missed Connection just wants to help woman up out of pit of despair

By adamg - 11/10/09 - 5:24 pm

UPDATE: The video made the news around the world. See examples in the comments.

Maybe the author of this Missed Connection will have more luck than the reporters who tried finding Our Lady of the Pit on Twitter yesterday.

Via Chessie Monks.

Surveillance video of that woman falling on the Orange Line tracks

By adamg - 11/9/09 - 2:58 pm

Yikes!

Still from an MBTA surveillance video just as the train stopped.

Channel 4 posts copies of three separate MBTA videos (three? Yes, three) of the woman falling off the platform - looks like one of the people waving at the oncoming train almost fell on the tracks himself.

Onlookers waving at the train to get the driver to stop: Read more

Near-death experience on the Orange Line

By adamg - 11/7/09 - 12:07 pm

Rick Sawyer reports he was on the inbound Orange Line platform at North Station last night when a woman fell on the tracks - just as a train was approaching:

... It was like a movie. The train stopped inches away from the woman's unstirring body, the frontmost part actually hanging over her. For a nauseating moment, we thought she had been killed—by the train or by the third rail. The conductor burst out of the front train compartment, the color draining from her face, repeating "Oh my God." ...

What happened to the sliding door

By roadman - 10/13/09 - 3:47 pm

on the end of the Garden-side entrance to North Station Orange/Green Line subway? It's been removed and the hole covered over with plywood.

If and when it is eventually replaced, I hope the T puts in a pair of normal swinging doors instead.

Panhandler finds a captive audience at North Station

By adamg - 9/18/09 - 5:50 pm

Mitch Blum tweets:

bummy kid shaking down commuters for cash on the [Newburyport/Rockport] train at N. Station...he scored $11.

Trolley needs to be taken out and shot, at North Station

By adamg - 8/11/09 - 4:37 pm

Delays inbound as a result, the T reports.

Electrical explosion forces evacuation of Green Line commuters near North Station

By adamg - 8/6/09 - 8:17 am

Boston Police tweet an "electrical fire" at North Station has shut down the area and that Green Line passengers are being evacuated from the tunnel. "Expect delays," they laconically advise. The T reports no Green Line service north of Government Center, blames "a disabled train" and power problems. Look in the comments below for an eyewitness account and a possible explanation of what happened.

More wire woes on the Green Line

By adamg - 7/21/09 - 10:15 am

No Green Line service north of Government Center thanks to "a wire problem" at North Station.

Revives flashbacks of Saturday's Green Line mess.

No service on Newburyport/Rockport line

By adamg - 4/29/09 - 6:24 pm

Passengers being told to take the Blue Line to Wonderland to get a shuttle bus to Lynn. Did a train hit somebody? Yes, in Everett.

Commuter rail roulette at North Station

By adamg - 4/27/09 - 4:40 pm

Apparently, it's a fun new game: Try figuring out if the trains are really going where the signboards say they are. Guess correctly and you win a trip to your destination. Make the wrong choice and you get to get off at the next stop and take the Orange Line back to North Station for another try.

North Station subway update

By roadman - 4/8/09 - 5:45 pm

The good news today was that all the faregates and Charlie machines at North Station subway appeared to be working properly today.

The bad news is that North Station has been given over to the latest attack of "station domination" (the T's really obnoxious way of raising revenue). In this case, it's really hard to tell you're actually in a subway station and not an airline terminal, thanks to all the JetBlue posters and ads and banners and decals plastered everywhere there's a blank space - yes, even on the FLOOR of the station as you approach the faregates.

The North Station faregate follies continue

By roadman - 4/6/09 - 11:55 am

This morning, NONE of the faregates at North Station subway were accepting monthly passes. Instead, they had a single CSA manning the 'Reduced Fare' faregate, and you flashed your pass at them as you went through.

Also, the ticket machines were apparently not accepting debit cards today, as the single CSA at the gate was yelling to people who were having problems with the machines. And yes, there were no other CSAs in sight near the machines to actually help those people who had trouble.

Cantileverage

By adamg - 2/4/09 - 11:50 am

Iron bridge

Sean Sullivan photographed one of the train bridges over the Charles behind North Station.

Copyright Sean Sullivan.

Giant mosquito sighted on T

By roadman - 1/27/09 - 12:36 pm

Actually, it was a man in a mosquito suit greeting commuters making their way through the concourse under Causeway Street. The man in the suit, and a group of people, were promoting a charity that is working to reduce the spread of malaria in Africa.

Dunkin' Donuts to give away 10,000 free rides

By adamg - 1/20/09 - 6:05 pm

The chain dredged up the guy who played Charlie in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" - the 1971 version - to help hand out one-ride Charlie Cards at North, South and Back Bay stations between 7 and 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 23.

One person will get a year's worth of free Dunkin' Donuts coffee and a pass good for a year's worth of subway ridin,' according to a company press release, which mentions how Oompa-Loompas are not eligible but which otherwise does not, as far as I can tell, explain the connection between kids getting stuffed down garbage chutes and greater Boston's transit sysem, except, of course that both the movie and the T have a character named "Charlie," and, presumably, Starkist wanted too much for a guy dressed up like a tuna and, besides, Dunkin' Donuts doesn't sell tuna sandwiches.

When did the T finally connect North and South stations?

By adamg - 12/31/08 - 9:13 am

After a few months away from Boston, Jim Kane arrives back at South Station to see an electronic signboard stating the next train to Fitchburg leaves from track 6.

Sure, it's no T-Radio - it's worse

By adamg - 12/5/08 - 8:50 pm

The Commutant reports from North Station:

Apparently the elders of North Station, in their wisdom, have decided that the low bass voice of the text-to-speech PA system is too easy to understand in the cavernous space that is the waiting area for trains. So, added to the mix is a bunch of ethnic folk song rejects caterwauling their oh-so-politically-correct holiday songs that I don't recognize.

And lucky for him, he got to listen even longer because at 4:48, he posted a photo of an empty platform where the 4:40 express was supposed to have just left from, only it hadn't even pulled in.

He's got his eye on you, Boston

By adamg - 11/3/08 - 9:56 am

Man on a hill watches the city on a hill.

MBTA/MBCR disregard their own signs

By adamg - 9/29/08 - 3:43 pm

Lori Magno got to Wedgemere station this morning to see a sign (taped to a trash can) telling riders that track work meant they need to board the inbound train on the outbound track.

Guess which track the train came on?

... When the conductor stepped off I asked him what he knew about the sign and he just shook his head (trying not to chuckle) and suggested I speak to customer service at North Station. Feeling up for a challenge, I did stop by customer service and spoke to a nice young woman who asked me to forward the photograph so she could send it to her supervisor. I left my business card too in case they want to respond.

Goofus and Galant at the MBTA

By adamg - 8/14/08 - 11:13 pm

Rage-filled T supervisor in MBTA vehicle cuts off, gives finger to, driver in Quincy.

T workers save life of man who fell on Orange Line tracks at North Station.

Late MBTA photos

By adamg - 8/2/08 - 9:58 am

Lori Magno has started a Flickr group to chronicle late MBTA trains and buses and the signs that (sometimes) announce their lateness (the ultimate MBTA lateness announcement). She describes her inspiration:

... So last night I arrive in time for the 6:25 only to have the sign say "Late 10 min" and then the sign changed to say "Late 15 min" with no announcement and North Station was left to ponder "15 minutes from now, or 15 minutes from 6:25?" GAH! ...

But thanks to a screamy conductor who forgot to check tickets, she at least got a free ride.

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