Arlington Street

Women in skirts might wish to avoid the escalator at the Arlington Street T stop

adamg — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:12:31 +0000

Or, at the least, make sure they have a hand free to keep their skirt down, due to a dramatic wind-tunnel effect, the Accidental Fiddler reports.

Police: Good Samaritan chases iPhone thief for several blocks through the Back Bay until officers arrive

adamg — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:21:43 +0000

MBTA Transit Police report the first arrest of the year for a smartphone theft, off a woman on a Green Line trolley at Arlington Street station yesterday afternoon.

According to a Transit Police report, Emmanuel Castro, 17, of Roxbury, grabbed an iPhone right out of a woman's hands when their inbound trolley stopped at Arlington around 2 p.m. Police say the woman chased after him from the train and then up the stairs to the street, where where she lost him. But an unidentified man, spotting the two running, figured out what was going on and began chasing Castro himself, calling police as they ran all the way to Fairfield and Beacon streets.

Police say they caught up with Castro at Fairfield and Comm. Ave. where, on a pat frisk, an officer felt something hard and pulled an Apple iPhone 4G in Castro's right front pocket. The officer then called one of the numbers on the phone and was, police say, connected to the woman's aunt.

Castro was charged with unarmed robbery.

Innocent, etc.

Steamed in the Back Bay

adamg — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:37:13 +0000

Pedestrians disappearing into some TriGen steam on Arlington Street this afternoon.

Smoking trolley at Arlington station

adamg — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:00:56 +0000

Boston Fire Department is on scene for a trolley fire on the outbound side. Pantograph fire is out, the train is dead, expect delays.

Brand-new Arlington Street station already leaks

adamg — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:29:33 +0000

Not enough joint compound?

City: New Boylston Street building doesn't need new approval even with changes

adamg — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:08:17 +0000

What a pigeon flying high over the Public Garden would see.

Developer Ron Druker has hired a new architect, who's made changes to the exterior design of his proposed nine-story, $120-million building at Boylston and Arlington streets, but the structure still has the same basic dimensions and doesn't really look all that much different, so it doesn't need to go through a new city review process, members of the Boston Civic Design Commission told nearby residents and preservationists tonight.

A gleaming Arlington station re-opens

adamg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:19:11 +0000

Bill Daras posts photos.

Old and dingy

johnmcboston — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:33:43 +0000

Was in Arlington station this weekend and saw the T work continuing. One phase of lighting is in place - the suspended lighting that runs above the "yellow line" close to the track. I was surprised to see this lighting uses yellow light bulbs. While yellow may be fine for your home, they make still-under-construction station look old and dingy before the work is even done. (Add to this the fact that lighting is going up, and the ceiling remains unrepaired, so, like Kenmore, looks like they'll just paint over the cracks and holes in the old ceiling. nice...)

Please pardon our appearance

adamg — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:28:09 +0000

Please Pardon Our Appearance would make a good title for a post-Apocalyptic movie involving zombies living in old subway stations:

Brad Kayal recently descended into the bowels of Arlington Street station to scout out locations.

Copyright Brad Kayal.

Two Green Line trains collide at Boylston station

Ron Newman — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:48:22 +0000

An eastbound Green Line trolley rear-ended another one between Arlington and Boylston stations around 8:50 this morning, injuring ~~three or four~~ seven people.

Boston.com story
Railroad.net discussion
LiveJournal discussion, reporting that passengers on the colliding trains had to walk in the subway tunnel to get to Boylston station

Somebody wants Charlie to wipe that grin off his face at Arlington station

adamg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:58:57 +0000

Sorry, Charlie.

When's a good time to have a fire on the Green Line? How about afternoon rush hour?

adamg — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:02:50 +0000

Fire in the hole, on the tracks between Boylston and Arlington Friday afternoon:

... FD had a hard time verifying that the power to the trains was turned off before they could go into the tunnels: lots of conflicting reports about whether or not the T had turned it off. ...

Shattered glass, bleeding woman, uncaring hordes at Arlington station

adamg — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:16:11 +0000

A Green Line rider, who requested anonymity, wonders just what the hell was going on at Arlington station yesterday afternoon. He writes:

Yesterday at rush hour at Arlington T stop, there was a huge commotion---at the end of the tunnel, just before you can split off to go inbound or Outbound, there was a backed up crowd of people and, for the first time I'd ever seen, both doors were closed. People were trying to open the door, but it was incredibly difficult (it was almost like trying to open a door during a windstorm).

As I edged closer, I realized the reason for the backup: shattered glass everywhere. The right-hand door, it appeared, was broken. Glass all along the floor. Incredibly, people were just walking through, albeit not terribly quickly. Rounding the corner, I came across a second reason for the delay: a woman with blood running down her legs, being treated by a man while her friend looked on in panic. Her friend had a cell phone, but kept saying it wouldn't work. Well, of course not, we were all underground. People kept passing this scene, because hey, "not my problem". Disgusting. So I volunteered to go back and get help. As I went back to get a signal through the long tunnel, T officials ran past me. (The broken glass must have happened literally minutes beforehand.) Soon after that, before I got a signal, a cop was on the scene.

And yet, I've heard NOTHING about this anywhere...have you heard anything? Did the door just spontaneously break? Was this woman pushed through?

Too much bilge water; too few hotties at Arlington station

adamg — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:51:14 +0000

Dernier is glad the T is rebuilding the Arlington Street station, but wishes they'd do something about the ditch there filling up with gross water and about the fact that there are no hot construction workers there.

Extreme makeover: Arlington Street station

adamg — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:06:11 +0000

Anali marvels at the current reconstruction of Arlington Street station (and takes photos, to boot):

... There is a really long corridor that you have to walk through now. When I first walked through it, it reminded me of The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy and friends are walking down that long corridor to see the Wizard. ...