The bad news is it's flooded, due to water gushing onto the tracks near Haymarket, the MBTA reports, adding riders downtown can, of course, use the Green Line. More distant riders can get on commuter rail at Forest Hills, Ruggles or Malden Center, although the T doesn't say whether you'll have to pay extra.
The MBTA reports inbound delays of 20 minutes due to a brand new train that died prematurely at Wellington.
The MBTA reports the morning commute included 15-minute delays on the Orange Line when one of those brand, if no longer spanking, new trains suffered another embarrassing "door issue," this time at Green Street.
Who knew it would be the Forest Hills platform on the Orange Line at Downtown Crossing at 10:37 on a Monday morning?
The MBTA reports northbound delays on the Orange Line of up to 20 minutes because of " train with a door issue." The train is too young to just be taken out back and shot, so instead will be diverted into the Wellington yard for repairs.
Yesterday morning, the Orange had a Jackson Square crotch exposer, then, just to mix things up, in the evening, at the very same station, Transit Police report, officers arrested a woman, 38, for "attempting/threatening to assault multiple other passengers onboard OL train with a Ball Peen hammer." She was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.
The MBTA reports one of the exciting-and-new Orange Line trains was held at State Street for about ten minutes so workers could whack the hell out of get a recalcitrant door on one car to work again.
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.
The deceased train. Photo by Peppamint Patty.
The T spent all that money on brand-new Orange Line cars and yet, here we are this morning with a dead brand-new Orange Line train at Haymarket gumming up the works.
At 10:23 a.m., Peppamint Patty reported from the platform, just a few feet away from the dead train: Read more.
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.
The MBTA today switched to a new mode on the arrival boards at terminal stations and stops near them: Instead of telling riders when the next two trains should arrive, signs now just tell them how often trains are currently running. Read more.
Around 9 p.m. Police are searching the neighboring Mildred Hailey Apartments for a suspect who ran there.
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.
Robert Orthman was among the teeming Orange Line riders who had to make like Godot after some leaves along the tracks caught fire near Oak Grove at rush hour, because you know how those leaves get on a dry day.
Swimman79 spotted somebody carrying a borg - although possibly filled with something other than vodka - on the Orange Line today. Or, since this is Boston, he says, it was a Mark Walborg.
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