The MBTA is vaguely blaming "power problems" for ending Blue Line service for the night with a blackout at Maverick station and special Snail-Speed Service across the harbor. Read more.
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By adamg - 10/18/22 - 2:00 pm
Transit Police have released a photo of a guy wanted for lewd and lascivious behavior at the Revere Beach Blue Line stop around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/22 - 10:59 pm
The MBTA reports trains are delayed due to one train with "a mechanical problem" outbound at Orient Heights.
By adamg - 8/24/22 - 9:58 pm
The MBTA announced new bus schedules with reduced service on 49 lines starting Aug. 28. Read more.
By adamg - 8/13/22 - 10:28 pm
Last month, it was a falling strip of metal from an Orange Line car that sparked explosions and a fire. Yesterday, it was a piece of metal that fall on a Blue Line train entering Suffolk Downs that caused sparks and halted service, WFXT reports.
By adamg - 8/12/22 - 4:42 pm
Nothing like bustitution on a Friday afternoon along the Blue Line to get the weekend off to a rousing start.
By adamg - 8/3/22 - 11:21 am
The MBTA is reporting delays of up to 20 minutes on the Blue Line "due to a maintenance train inspecting the overhead wires."
By adamg - 6/17/22 - 2:27 pm
The T today announced its first step in responding to this week's critical safety demands from federal investigators: Starting Monday, it will run fewer trains on weekdays on the Red, Orange and Blue Lines to give employees at its Operations Control Center a breather until it can find and train more of them. Read more.
By adamg - 5/12/22 - 10:04 am
The MBTA today extended the Blue Line shutdown between East Boston and downtown until at least Tuesday, in part due to a derailment of a "construction tool cart" near Airport during repair work earlier this week. Read more.
By adamg - 5/8/22 - 11:15 pm
The MBTA announced today that the Blue Line shutdown between Airport and Bowdoin has been extended until May 13 so workers can "complete additional work and finish scheduled work" in the tunnel. Expect delays on the alternative shuttle buses and ferries.
By adamg - 3/24/22 - 9:50 am
Get ready for buses between April 2 and April 14, the Beacon Hill Times reports.
By adamg - 3/16/22 - 8:17 am
There was a "medical emergency" at Maverick serious enough that the T had to bring in shuttle buses to replace service, only as RadRebe shows, there weren't enough of them. Here, she's at Airport, where she got on a Silver Line bus to downtown - where she was further delayed by Red Line problems.
By adamg - 2/2/22 - 12:25 pm
The T reports a Norwegian Blue of a train is now at State, messing everything up, so they're now running a single shuttle train between Government Center and Maverick. Bowdoin is just completely shut, so don't even think of trying it.
By adamg - 1/30/22 - 6:45 pm
At 4 p.m., Teresa Polhemus, the BPDA's executive director, posted a photo of the line she was in at Government Center for a bus across the harbor because the Blue Line was out of service - as it had been since at least 5:44 a.m., when the T first reported "a disabled train" at Maverick. Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/22 - 9:17 am
A bit of the old "power" problem on the Blue Line this morning forced the T to roll out some buses to get passengers between Airport and Government Center, but the T says power's been restored and the trains are actually running again.
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