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By adamg - 3/7/23 - 1:22 pm
GBH takes a look at ridership figures from the 23, 28 and 29 lines, which are now free under a two-year Boston pilot that started in March - several months after the city first started paying the T for fares on the 28.
By adamg - 2/26/23 - 6:16 pm
Ginnette noticed today that somebody used a marker in the Ruggles busway to ask: "When will this end?"
By adamg - 2/22/23 - 10:55 am
Transit Police report two "juvenile females" punched and spit at a 50-year-old woman and pulled her hair around 5 p.m. on Feb. 19 on a T bus in the area of Washington Street and Columbia Road. The teens then fled.
By adamg - 2/7/23 - 9:03 pm
The MBTA announced today that all but the topmost level of the Alewife garage will re-open tomorrow, but that the Red Line will continue to end and begin at Davis as engineers figure out how to get people onto trains without having to pass under a metal framework damaged when some guy in a Civic rammed into a concrete barrier on the garage's top level, sending the five-ton concrete slab down towards the station atrium - only to be stopped by the metal supports for large window panels. Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/23 - 1:01 pm
Boston today announced the arrival of the first of 20 electricity-powered buses at the BPS bus yard in Readville, which will serve as a pilot with the goal of replacing all of the city's current 620 diesel and propane buses by 2030 - and which will start carrying students after February vacation. Read more.
By adamg - 1/6/23 - 3:05 pm
Photo of bent ramp by TPD.
Transit Police report no injuries yesterday when a bus driver extended his bus's wheelchair ramp to let a passenger off at Tufts Medical Center yesterday and an impatient SUV driver who had been parked at the bus stop couldn't wait and drove over it just as the passenger was about to get off. Read more.
By adamg - 1/6/23 - 12:17 pm
Transit Police report arresting Dason Alves, 33, of Dorchester, for shooting a woman on a T bus near Andrew station on Dec. 30.
Alves was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and numerous firearm violations, police say.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 12/30/22 - 10:25 pm
Surveillance photo via TPD.
Update: Police say they found the guy, have talked to him and that their investigation continues.
Transit Police have released a photo of the man they say may have shot a woman in the stomach on a bus outside Andrew station around 5:25 p.m.
By adamg - 12/6/22 - 10:01 am
Andrew McCourt shows us the line for a 7 bus in South Boston around 8:30 a.m. He had some time to ponder the situation: Read more.
By adamg - 11/21/22 - 10:31 pm
A roving UHub photographer snapped this shot of the only way to get into JFK/UMass from Columbia Road now that the T has shut the original entrance for some sort of construction. For some reason, the T officially would prefer that people coming from the west take the extra hike to the Old Colony/busway entrance.
By adamg - 11/21/22 - 11:13 am
The MBTA has shut the pedestrian entrance to JFK/UMass station from Columbia Road. Read more.
By adamg - 10/28/22 - 9:25 am
BTD is looking at extending the shared bus/bike lane along the inbound side of Washington Street from Albano Street to Corinth Street in Roslindale Square, a BTD planner told the Roslindale West Village Neighborhood Association on Wednesday. Read more.
By adamg - 9/18/22 - 10:51 am
Transit Police report a man was just vibing in the middle of Washington Street at West Concord Street in the South End shortly after midnight when a Silver Line bus driver beeped the horn "to move him along." The man took exception to that, police say: Read more.
By adamg - 8/27/22 - 11:48 am
Scott Tetreault has a couple photos of the aftermath of a collision on Hyde Park Avenue at American Legion Highway this morning.
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