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Man struck and killed by Orange Line train at Green Street

Transit Police report that around 7:40 p.m., a man "intentionally entered onto the right of way" at Green Street as an outbound Orange Line was approaching. The train hit and killed him, police say.

The MBTA had shuttle buses running between Jackson Square and Forest Hills during the investigation.


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How the hell do they normally say 'Boston' in LA?

LA TV anchors and reporters buttress the theory that almost nobody westa Worcester can properly do a Boston accent.


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Australian meat-pie place could get kayoed when owner leaves New England

Boston Magazine reports that KO Pies owner Sam Jackson plans to sell his shipyard eatery and move out of the region.

He had earlier shuttered the South Boston KO Pies.

If whoever buys the place does decide to change the menu, that would leave Cuppacoffee, which has locations across from the Brooke Courthouse and in the South End, as the sole purveyor of Australian meat pies in Boston.


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Orange Line riders were not feeling the love when one train had to give another a shove

Around 2:30 p.m., the T was reporting delays of up to 20 minutes on the Orange Line due to an outbound train with "a mechanical problem" near Malden Center bad enough to have the train after it called up to push it to Oak Grove.


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Trying to improve the T from the outside

Politico profiles two of the main movers behind Transit Matters, which is trying to push the T into becoming a better service.

One Sunday night two years ago, Marc Ebuña and Ari Ofsevit stayed up past 1 a.m. to watch the city’s transit system grind to a pointless halt.

Sitting in their respective apartments, they were monitoring a website that tracks Boston’s rapid-transit trains in real time. “I live-tweeted the late-night ballet, the last-trains ballet,” Ebuña says. Except what they were seeing was more of a citywide muscle spasm than an elegant dance.

The author focuses on them because they're young and so fit the author's conclusion that T improvement is something only Millennials could think of. A third major person behind the group, Jim Aloisi, is dismissed as "the token Baby Boomer," even though he has a bit of transit experience himself - as former secretary of transportation for the entire state.


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South Boston restaurant cleared to re-open after fixing kitchen health issues

Amrheins sign last week. Photo by Liz Levy.

Amrheins on West Broadway got the OK from a city health inspector today to re-open after it fixed a series of violations found last week, including letting a food-handling employee ill with an infectious disease keep working in the kitchen.

A spokesperson for the Boston Public Health Commission declined to specify the illness, but said "there is no evidence at this time that indicates the community at-large is at-risk."

In an Oct. 19 inspection, the restaurant had also been cited for keeping salad fixings and bleu-cheese dressing too warm, workers not adequately washing their hands during their shifts and having a kitchen sink meant only for hand washing filled with pots.

Also, workers were keeping raw chicken next to raw shrimp and scallops, and the kitchen had flies flitting around, with a rear door open without a screen.

As one of the conditions for re-opening, the restaurant had to show a manager had undergone training in what to do when a food-handling employee shows up to work with a potentially communicable illness.

The restaurant property is currently for sale as a potential site for new development.


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Police: Man was walking around Forest Hills T station with a loaded gun and counterfeit money

Transit Police report officers doing the usual after-school presence in the Forest Hills lobby Tuesday afternoon wound up arresting a man who was not at all happy to see them because he had a gun in his pants. Read more.

Tue, 10/23/2018 - 14:30
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Fewer shootings in Boston this year - but more fatal ones


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Playing the gentrification game in Uphams Corner

Greg Cook reports on educator and video star Tory Bullock and the Gentrification Game installation he set up for today and tomorrow between 4 and 7 p.m. at Dudley Neighbors, 572 Columbia Road:

One neighborhood is home to a liquor store while the other has a wine emporium. One side has a check cashing business and a torn-down theater, while the other has “an actual bank” and a pristine theater. Bullock asks, “Can you survive in my fictional transitional neighborhood?”


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