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By adamg - 11/17/14 - 5:46 pm
Packing them in at a Silver Line stop. Photo by Martin Zero.
Problems on the Red and Green lines mean crankytime for evening T commuters. Christie F. gives us a taste:
35 minutes ago my train pulled out of Lechmere. We still haven't reached Haymarket.
Southbound Red Line service has yet to reach standstill proportions, but that's of little solace to people jammed onto platforms who can't even sardine themselves into trains.
By adamg - 11/17/14 - 2:10 pm
UPDATE: Around 5:15 p.m., somebody called in a bomb threat the the CVS at 942 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park - which was the ninth or tenth drug-store bomb threat of the day. About ten minutes later, a bomb threat was phoned into the CVS on Market Street in Brighton.
Somebody is keeping BPD busy this afternoon by calling in bomb threats to drug stores: So far, CVS stores at 333 Washington St., downtown, and 631 Washington St. in Chinatown, the Rite-Aid at 100 Cambridge St. and a drug store in South Boston have been swept by police.
Earlier:
CVS bomb threatener resurfaces, threatens to explode another drug store.
By adamg - 11/17/14 - 9:55 am
Witts and Snyder.
Two homeless people will be arraigned today on charges they brutally attacked a T worker - even ripping hair out of his scalp - when he tried to usher them out of the Downtown Crossing station early Sunday.
When Transit Police arrived around 3:30 a.m., the inspector was "bleeding profusely" from the nose and had numerous bruises on his face, according to a police report. Officers also observed fresh hair and blood on the sidewalk, "spreading across an area approximately 30 feet in length."
By adamg - 11/14/14 - 2:52 pm
A We Don't Knock sampler, from back in the days when just any idiot could walk right into the JFK Building - assuming their TV cables didn't jam up the revolving door.
By adamg - 11/14/14 - 8:01 am
Associated Press reports Emerson officials are trying to find whoever's scrawling swastikas in campus buildings.
By massmarrier - 11/12/14 - 3:40 pm
Apparently the Gov. wasn't kidding. Commuter rail has published the pending weekend service on the Fairmount (Purple/Indigo) Line for the first time ever.
Hyde Park to South Station locals have fought for this for years. I'll be on the first Saturday morning, Nov. 29th train and head to the Haymarket.
Basically, it's hourly service and in some ways better than the existing five-day sked. The last train from South Station will leave at 10:58PM.
By adamg - 11/11/14 - 7:23 pm
Changing trains on the tracks. Photo by Billy Lazarro.
Even normally pessimistic Fitchburg Line commuters probably didn't expect this: By 7 p.m., the 5:30 train to Fitchburg train hadn't moved more than a few feet from North Station. As Billy Lazarro explains, passengers finally walked down the track to another train, which also then just sat there.
By adamg - 11/11/14 - 8:28 am
WBUR reports on the ceremony yesterday formally renaming South Station as the Governor Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center at South Station.
In addition to riding the Green Line, Dukakis also served on Amtrak's board. And when the BRA, which owned South Station, was about to have the whole thing torn down after years of neglect, Dukakis, as governor, stepped in and blocked the move. The BRA finally gave up and sold the station to the MBTA, which began the work to revitalize it.
By adamg - 11/10/14 - 2:40 pm
Adam Castiglioni watched the Equuleus Leader steaming out of Boston Harbor today.
Heather Parker IDs it as a ship belonging to Nippon Yusen, which ships cars into Boston. More details on the ship, via Gerald Burke.
Earlier:
Another car carrier in the harbor.
By adamg - 11/10/14 - 9:17 am
Updated with info from the arraignment.
A Brookline cab driver had bail set at $1,000 today on charges he wielded both his fists and his cab as weapons against a bicyclist who had just run into a pedestrian at Tremont and Avery streets Friday night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
According to the DA's office, the incident with driver Sam Chandler, 45, began when a bicyclist ran a red light and plowed into a pedestrian as she was crossing the street.
By adamg - 11/8/14 - 11:34 am
Leaf pile, anyone? TrueNE_79 took a walk through the Common this morning.
By adamg - 11/8/14 - 9:34 am
Transit Police report the man wanted for stealing the phone of a woman who died when hit by a Red Line train Thursday night is in custody this morning.
Transit Police say Josue Gonzalez, 26, of Brockton, turned himself in at their Southampton Street headquarters around 9:30 p.m. yesterday - and that they have the woman's phone.
He is scheduled for arraignment on a charge of larceny in Boston Municipal Court on Monday.
By adamg - 11/7/14 - 3:44 pm
The Globe reports state public-health officials today approved a proposed dispensary at 21 Milk St., which would be the city's first under the 2012 law allowing them.
By adamg - 11/7/14 - 2:27 pm
Surveillance photo via Transit Police.
UPDATE: Suspect turned self in.
Transit Police say that as a woman lay dying under a Red Line train at Downtown Crossing last night, a guy who watched her jump in front of the train proceeded to steal her phone, which had landed on the platform:
By adamg - 11/6/14 - 10:10 pm
Happened around 9:50 p.m.
KidAtlantic reports he was on the train:
Calm and collected from MBTA personnel while evacuating the train at DC. Passengers shocked on platform to learn woman was struck.
Woman on platform upon exiting says she saw another woman standing on the yellow line as the train approached.
Power was shut so firefighters could extricate her body.
By adamg - 11/6/14 - 6:50 pm
Jed Hresko spotted some dogged determination on the Orange Line this evening, on a Forest Hills train just past State.
By adamg - 11/6/14 - 5:38 pm
Two Dorchester men who allegedly used a shotgun and a handgun to hold up the McDonald's at 146 Tremont St. early this morning were ordered held on $100,000 bail each at their arraignment on charges of armed robbery while masked, kidnapping, and assault and battery in Boston Municipal Court, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Boston Police report Andre Nesbeth and Mason McKoy, both 26, may face additional charges:
By adamg - 11/6/14 - 2:18 pm
Ian spotted this giant tree lumbering through downtown today. On its way to Faneuil Hall Marketplace.
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