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JFK/UMass
By adamg - 8/5/23 - 2:55 pm
Transit Police report arresting several teens they say responded to a woman's request to settle down on the Red Line Thursday night by pointing gel-pellet guns at her - with one opening fire and shooting her in the mouth. Read more.
By adamg - 7/25/23 - 4:35 pm
From video by Timothy Dunn.
The MBTA shut power on the Red Line in both directions at JFK/UMass after a third rail caught fire just before the station around 4:20 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 3/29/23 - 9:59 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports the T has added a couple million dollars to its 2024-2028 capital plan to hire a consultant to look at redesigning JFK/UMass, where one entrance had to be shut for four months and where a man fell to his death on a stairway missing stairs that had never been removed despite being marked as unsafe.
By adamg - 1/9/23 - 11:22 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports the entrance, closed since November as a menace, could re-open after workers finish getting it back into safe shape.
By adamg - 11/22/22 - 3:51 pm
The Dorchester Reporter gets the scoop: Inspectors found a critical structural problem along Columbia Road that required the entrance to be shut over the weekend - along with "additional structural issues" that led to the concourse over the Braintree tracks to be shut - for possibly the next four to five weeks.
The Savin Hill T stop also has some issues, the Reporter adds.
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 - 11/17/22 - 1:20 pm
The wife of David Jones, the Boston University professor who died after falling through missing steps on a rickety stairway next to the JFK/UMass T stop, today formally blamed the MBTA and MassDOT for his death, in a lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.
By adamg - 6/24/22 - 3:26 pm
The Dorchester Reporter explains why another set of stairs at the JFK/UMass Red Line and commuter-rail station is shut.
By adamg - 1/21/22 - 4:20 pm
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office says there's nobody to charge for the way Boston University professor David Jones died by falling 20 feet through missing stairs outside the JFK/UMass Red Line stop last September. Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/21 - 9:47 am
The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the Braintree branch of the Red Line due to a deceased train. One rider reports from the train it didn't quite make it into JFK/UMass:
We're across from the Globe building just sitting here.
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