Ruggles
Person hit, killed by Amtrak train at Ruggles
By adamg - 1/31/12 - 6:43 pmUpdate, 7:25 p.m.: One track was cleared and limited train service through Ruggles resumed.
Commuter-rail and Amtrak service through Ruggles is stopped as transit and fire officials investigate a fatal train-vs-person collision on the inbound side this evening. The T is describing it as a "trespasser strike."
Dan Esdale reports his outbound train to Franklin stopped, then headed back to South Station.
In the other direction, Craig Herman reports an Amtrak train is just sitting at Forest Hills.
Teen charged with repeatedly stabbing man who sat next to him on a bus seat
By adamg - 11/7/11 - 10:37 pmTarik Muhammad didn't want any company on his trip out of Ruggles on Aug. 31, 2010, so when a man sat next to him, he told him to move - and when the man refused, they got into an argument that ended when Muhammed began beating and stabbing him, prosecutors say. Channel 4 has the surveillance video shown in court today.
Student robbed, sliced with knife down street from Boston Police headquarters
By adamg - 10/6/11 - 9:08 pmA student was robbed of cash and then sliced in the hand around 9:10 p.m. at Ruggles and Tremont streets, the latest violent incident within a quick walk of the Boston Police headquarters building.
Police are looking for a black man with a goatee in a dark hoodie, who wielded the knife and who may also be packing a gun, and a black woman, also in a dark hoodie.
There was another two-on-one knifepoint robbery in the lower busway at the Ruggles T stop Sunday night.
Ruggles repentance reminder
By adamg - 8/6/11 - 12:29 pm
Melissa J. Gibson spotted Repent Now Man on the Orange Line.
Copyright Melissa J. Gibson. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Police: Students beat, robbed, threatened classmate from Ruggles to Cambridge
By adamg - 5/12/11 - 10:03 amA 14-year-old student who was punched, robbed and warned not to snitch by two classmates at the Ruggles stop on the Orange Line around 2 p.m. yesterday thought he'd managed to escape them by making his way to the Cambridgeside Galleria.
But, he told police, the two - and an older guy - were waiting for him when he left the mall around 5:40 p.m. and they jumped him again, stole his cell phone and threatened to "drop him" in class if he told anyone what had happened.
MBTA: Real-time Green Line tracking 'several years away,' but commuter-rail riders could soon get apps
By adamg - 10/1/10 - 4:17 pm
Tim Murray, Catch the T developer Jared Egan and T GM Richard Davey at Ruggles today.
MBTA and state officials today announced the release of real-time data on three of the system's four subway lines, along with plans to install monitors showing train and bus arrival info at every station where subways and buses connect.
Over the next several weeks, application developers who have already built smartphone and other apps for bus arrivals will use the new data for similar train-based services. At a ceremony at the Ruggles stop on the Orange Line, Catch the Bus builder Jared Egan showed off his upcoming Catch the T app.
MBTA General Manager Richard Davey said the Green Line was left out because, unlike the other three lines, buses and commuter rail, its trains do not have the sort of tracking systems in place to allow accurate predictions of when trains will arrive in a station. It's the same reason you don't hear "the next train to [wherever] is now approaching" announcements on the Green Line - the new real-time data is based on that announcement system for the other three lines.
Davey said real-time tracking of commuter rail trains could be just a few months away.
He added that monitors unwrapped today at Ruggles and Back Bay will eventually be joined by similar monitors at other key stations.
Wanted for attempted murder on a bus right by Boston Police HQ
By adamg - 9/1/10 - 8:58 am
MBTA Transit Police say this is the guy who repeatedly stabbed somebody on a 23 bus at Ruggles and Tremont streets yesterday evening, then fled toward the Whittier Street project. He's described as 25 to 30, 5'7" and weighing between 185 and 220 lbs, with dreadlocks.
UPDATE: MBTA Transit Police tweet they've caught the guy.
You might not want to lean too hard on the railings at the Ruggles commuter-rail stop
By adamg - 1/13/10 - 11:02 pmCharlie on the Commuter Rail shows how the stairs are failing apart, barely three years after they were repaired following two years of being shut as unsafe.
Commuter-rail conductors back on secret strike? They're not announcing trains again
By adamg - 8/15/09 - 7:07 pmAnna B reports on the past week at the Ruggles commuter-rail stop, at which not a single train's destination was announced, forcing commuters to play commuter-rail roulette:
... This Friday, fed up, I asked a conductor who was collecting fares about why no one announced what line the train was. He told me, "We did but you probably couldn't hear us going by 30 mph." I call bullshit. Not a single conductor was in a doorway as it pulled up to Ruggles. ...
Jim Aloisi rides the bus from Mattapan to Ruggles
By adamg - 7/22/09 - 9:28 amTakes the 28 this morning to see just how much marvier life for riders will be when it transmogrifies into the 28X Super Bus, which I know because Alex Owens is live-twittering the ride:
... Aloisi and Chang-Diaz getting breakfast @ Brother's...
Ed. question: Is there any station in all of T-land with a better name than Ruggles? I'd rank it even higher than Wonderland.
