Universal Hub - buses

They like their lawsuits in JP: Residents opposed to Casey Overpass replacement ponder suing

adamg — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:46:37 +0000

The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports residents who want to see the Casey Overpass replaced with another overpass instead of surface roads are considering suing to stop the work:

"No one prefers to go that route if there's a reasonable solution,” he told the Gazette this week. "But all our arrows are in our quiver."

At particular issue: The proposed new location of the exit from the Forest Hills busway near Asticou Road.

Police: Man punches out bus driver who refused to let him ride for free

adamg — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:09:29 +0000

Transit Police report arresting a Wakefield man on charges he repeatedly punched an MBTA bus driver in the face this morning at Oak Grove after the driver wouldn't let him board because his CharlieCard didn't have enough funds.

Police say the driver, 58, was letting passengers board his Route 131 bus at Oak Grove around 6:50 a.m. when Ryan O'Donnell, 19, stepped into the bus:

O'Donnell tapped his Charlie Card on the fare box which indicated insufficient funds to cover the fare. The bus operator explained this to O'Donnell who became belligerent and demanded to ride for free. The bus operator refused and after withstanding O'Donnell's verbal tirade requested he exit the bus. As O'Donnell was exiting the bus he turned and spat at the bus operator. Subsequent to that a struggle ensued where the victim/T employee was struck with a closed fist multiple times in the face causing injury and severe bleeding from his nose.

O'Donnell is now scheduled for arraignment in Malden District Court on a charge of assault and battery, police say.

Innocent, etc.

Chaos on first day of Memorial Drive overpass shutdown

adamg — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:55:36 +0000

Drivers this morning were not prepared for yesterday's shutdown of the overpass on the Cambridge side of the BU Bridge - although they'll now have six months to get used to it.

Kathy reports traffic was tied up in knots on the Boston side. Nikki reports from on board a bus:

Driver of the CT2 is freaking out screaming obscenities at other drivers in this INSANE traffic by BU bridge.

Man reacts to being told to pay full fare on a bus by punching the driver

adamg — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:31:47 +0000

Yesterday afternoon at Dudley station, WCVB reports.

T bus driver helps rescue Everett residents from fire

adamg — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:22:17 +0000

Dennis Murphy was driving his Route 110 bus down Elm Street around 6 a.m. yesterday when he noticed a building on fire.

According to Sean Mills, his supervisor at the Charlestown bus yard:

He immediately called dispatch and secured the bus. He then went over to the house on fire and rang all the doorbells to wake everyone inside up. These people did not know the house was on fire. His actions may have saved their lives.

Mills adds he gave Murphy a commendation, but that Murphy declined to have a picture taken of him accepting it "because he says this is stuff we should just do naturally."

Smush, smush, smush went the taxi

adamg — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:06:35 +0000

Keith Richard snapped this photo of the bus he'd been on and a taxi in Kendall Square around 5:45 p.m.:

This cab just pulled in front of the CT2 I was riding at Kendall. Bus braked, we all went flying.

Alex Wheeler, also on the bus, reported no injuries, but, naturally, rush-hour traffic quickly backed up as a result.

Snow rage on a bus: Teen arrested on charges he spit at driver who wouldn't open rear door due to a snowbank

adamg — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:31:04 +0000

3/20/13 - 1:03 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester teen on charges of assault and battery on a public employee and interfering with public transportation because of an incident this afternoon on a 19 bus on Geneva Avenue.

According to police, the driver pulled into a stop outside 51 Geneva Ave. around 1 p.m.

KiDante Roberts, 18, grew agitated when the rear door wouldn't open, police say:

Bus-attack suspect ordered to listen to her mother

adamg — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:19:14 +0000

A 15-year-old charged with participating in last weekend's attack on a Route 16 bus driver had bail set today at $1,000, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

The DA's office reports Dorchester District Court Magistrate Michelle Bulger set several other conditions on the Hyde Park girl, not named because of her age: She has to wear a GPS device, follow a 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew and "obey any rules set by her mother."

Spitting video

adamg — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:31:31 +0000

Transit Police have posted surveillance video showing an irate woman spitting at a bus driver after being ordered off a bus at Ashmont for not paying her fare last Saturday. Police say she was accompanied by two small children - one of whom you can see in her arms as she launches her saliva salvo.

Second arrest made in T bus-driver beating

adamg — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:57:46 +0000

Transit Police report arresting a 15-year-old female from Hyde Park today for the Route 16 attack - no name because of her age. "Transit Police detectives continue to work toward identifying more suspects," a spokesman says, adding she is not the same person who threw her pass at the driver just as 15 to 20 teens were gathering for the attack.