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By adamg - 6/12/23 - 3:15 pm
Derailed wheels at Packards Corner

Photo by Lipistickey.

It's buses all the way down as the T replaces B Line trolleys after one came off the rails at Packards Corner around 2:10 p.m. Lipistickey surveyed the damage, can only marvel: Whoops.

The trolley was still there at 5 p.m: Read more.

By adamg - 6/7/23 - 1:24 pm
Wanted man

Surveillance photos via TPD.

Updated with new photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say stole property belonging to a man who died under the wheels of a Green Line trolley early on May 30. Read more.

By adamg - 5/30/23 - 9:42 am

Transit Police report a man died on the outbound Green Line tracks at North Station around 12:18 a.m.

In a statement, police say: Read more.

By adamg - 5/26/23 - 2:14 pm

WBUR updates us on the latest round of MBTA repair shutdowns, which include shutting down the brand-spanking-new Green Line Extension for the first two weekends in June, because it turns out the T started running trains on it even though it wasn't completely done. The work involves various stuff along the tracks, not the still unopened community path in Somerville.

By adamg - 5/23/23 - 8:26 am

Transit Police report arresting a convicted sex offender with a golf club at Hynes on the Green Line after he used the club to threaten a couple who declined to give him money around 11:45 p.m. on Monday.

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 4:22 pm
Car stuck on tracks along Huntington Avenue

Photo via TPD.

Transit Police report the driver of this car proved unable to handle the intersection of Huntington and Longwood avenues shortly before 7:40 a.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 5/16/23 - 5:22 pm
Car in crash stops the E Line

RadRebe shows us the scene on Huntington Avenue around 4 p.m. when a crash left one car dead on the E Line tracks, blocking the trolleys. The T advised riders to take the 39 instead.

By adamg - 5/3/23 - 2:03 pm

Transit Police report a woman eating lunch onboard a Green Line trolley didn't just fret that she might get hair in her food from another woman fixing her hair near her, she took action: Read more.

By adamg - 5/3/23 - 1:45 pm

The MBTA reports delays of up to 20 minutes on the outbound B Line due to a trolley at Warren that thought it could, but it couldn't.

By adamg - 4/29/23 - 6:01 pm

But the MBTA reports "this delay has been cleared," which we assume means something other than that they shoved the train off side of the viaduct.

By adamg - 4/28/23 - 5:05 pm

WCVB has video of the center section of a new Type 9 buckling at Boylston the afternoon of Patriots Day, which caused monumental delays in part because some riders were kept on other trolleys for close to an hour. The T says all other Type 9 trolleys passed inspection.

By adamg - 4/24/23 - 3:39 pm

With the first of the 8 p.m. shutdowns of the Blue Line for track work beginning tonight, the MBTA is announcing a series of similar shutdowns on the Red and Green Lines, along with shutdowns on the Orange and Silver Lines, as the T works through all the slow zones that have turned many commutes into something like riding the back of a snail even aside from the reduced service caused by a lack of dispatchers. Read more.

By adamg - 4/23/23 - 1:25 pm

The MBTA reports the Green Line is currently running 15 minutes slower inbound than it normally runs slow these days due to signal problems at Copley.

By adamg - 4/19/23 - 10:50 pm

The Federal Transit Administration yesterday demanded the MBTA take "immediate action" to correct safety problems it says are still endangering T workers ten months after it issued several urgent directives about safety problems on MBTA subway lines. Read more.

By adamg - 4/17/23 - 4:42 pm

One of the MBTA's newest trolleys suffered some sort of catastrophic failure with that swiveling mechanism in the center of the car near Boylston shortly before 3 p.m., jamming up the line on one of its busiest days of the year - and leaving some passengers on other trolleys trapped for an hour or more as T workers tried to get them and the newly dysfunctional trolley safely out of the tunnels. Read more.

By adamg - 4/5/23 - 4:10 pm

The MBTA reports Green Line service is now back to the new-normal regular delays now that it's done something about the dead trolley that was gumming up the works at Copley.

By adamg - 4/3/23 - 9:56 am

Ed. note: Google Maps says it would take 99 minutes to walk from Ashmont to the Pru.

That girl that likes planez chronicled her commute this morning, starting at 7:51 a.m., when, she reported, she was sitting on a Red Line train at Ashmont six minutes after she boarded it: Read more.

By adamg - 3/30/23 - 3:49 pm

The MBTA reports Green Line delays of up to 20minutes due to a trolley with a broken door at Government Center. This is atop issues caused by a track problem at Haymarket, on top of the problems caused by all the slow zones and the lack of dispatchers.

By adamg - 3/23/23 - 12:30 pm
Slow zone on the MBTA

The black triangles show where trains can't go more than 10 m.p.h.

The MBTA has unveiled its speed restrictions dashboard so you can see where somebody on a bicycle can pedal faster than a subway train - like much of the Blue Line and the Green Line between Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton and the Lechmere viaduct.

The T promises to update the page every day so riders can follow along as the T clears, or doesn't, the slow zones that have long plagued riders and all the new ones that were added over the past couple months.

By adamg - 3/19/23 - 9:23 pm
A cheetah

Not quite up to full sprinting speed yet.

The MBTA announced tonight it's cleared a bunch of track problems and put up the proper signs for trolley drivers so it's lifting the "global" speed restrictions on the Green Line, just a few hours after it said the entire Green Line would remain a slow zone for awhile. Read more.

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