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By adamg - 3/29/22 - 4:30 pm
Tunnel drone view

The MBTA reports that before it send actual inspectors into the Orange Line and Green Line tunnels under the partially collapsed Government Center Garage, it sent in drones today: Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/22 - 10:24 pm

The MBTA lists options for getting from A to B with the Orange and Green lines now out for God knows how long at Haymarket (where things are so iffy inspectors first have to figure out if the tunnels are safe just for them, never mind trains and riders).

By adamg - 3/27/22 - 5:29 pm

The MBTA announced today it's not going to be running any trains or buses under the partially collapsed Government Center Garage - which sits atop Haymarket station, "until a team of structural engineers, examining and assessing infrastructure above and below the surface, confirms that subway service can safely resume." Read more.

By adamg - 3/12/22 - 5:18 pm

The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the inbound B Line due to a trolley with "a mechanical problem" at BC, and delays of up to 15 minutes on the Orange Line between Oak Grove and Sullivan, due to a similarly disinclined-to-move train at Wellington. Read more.

By adamg - 3/3/22 - 4:37 pm

The MBTA reports it's suspended service on the Orange Line between Back Bay and North Station, and is running buses between Forest Hills and Back Bay due to what it calls a "power problem" at Back Bay or what people who don't speak transitese might call "a track fire".

By adamg - 2/16/22 - 12:52 pm
Orange Line Valentine's card: Babe, u r smokin!

This Valentine's Day card was supposed to be a joke, right? Source.

At least it wasn't one of the new trains. Dave Baron was among the people on an Orange Line train that began to smoke at Chinatown around noon. Read more.

By adamg - 2/16/22 - 9:57 am
Sunset over the Northeast Corridor

LarsK Images had a good view of the Orange Line and the Northeast Corridor - and the Back Bay - at sunset at Forest Hills yesterday.

By adamg - 2/15/22 - 9:07 am

The MBTA reports it's managed to get rid of the dead Orange Line train at Ruggles that was gumming up the works, but that riders can expect those dreaded residual delays of up to 15 minutes as it gets trains back to where they were supposed to be.

By adamg - 2/11/22 - 2:19 pm

At 2:13 p.m., BEECEE reported he'd been stuck inside an Orange Line train dead at Mass. Ave. with T workers just walking back and forth outside doing nothing to help riders get out of their train. One man in his car started screaming, to no avail, he reported. Some riders managed to climb out of the train, but that wasn't a route available to a man in a motorized wheelchair.

By adamg - 2/7/22 - 9:37 am

The Orange Line was slowed to a crawl this morning by "signal problems" at Forest Hills, while a deceased trolley at Boylston made a has of things on the Green Line, the MBTA reports.

By adamg - 2/3/22 - 8:58 am
Falcon at Jackson Square

Photo by Francis Delaney.

Yesterday afternoon, Francis Delaney noticed a raptor inside the Jackson Square Orange Line station. He reports he called animal control last night and will call the Animal Rescue League this morning.

Earlier:
Hawk takes up perch in Green Street Orange Line station.

By adamg - 1/31/22 - 6:10 pm
Crowded Orange Line train

Tim Lawrence shares his view on the Orange Line at rush hour, adds: Read more.

By adamg - 1/30/22 - 6:45 pm
Line for a Blue Line bus replacement at Government Center

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 - 1/18/22 - 8:52 am
Wu and O'Malley on a bus

Among those affected: The mayor and a former city councilor.

Some sort of "power problem" on the Orange Line means the T is rolling out shuttle buses to replace the Orange Line between Jackson Square and Back Bay. But, the T helpfully advises, you can also jump on the 39 (and then, if you're feeling especially kicky, you can jump off the 39 and get on the E Line). Read more.

By adamg - 1/6/22 - 1:33 pm

The MBTA reports delays of up to 25 minutes on the Orange Line due to a train that went to meet its maker at Oak Grove, one of the poor tired old trains that has been shouldering its superannuated burden for just so long and could no longer take it, we assume, rather than one of the sprightly shiny new young thangs just off the truck from the Springfield assembly plant.

By adamg - 1/1/22 - 11:12 pm

Transit Police report they are looking for a man who pulled a gun on somebody at the Assembly Orange Line stop around 7:25 tonight.

If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text to 873873.

By adamg - 12/28/21 - 2:21 pm

Transit Police report arresting three of six or seven teens they say threw a man against a wall and punched him repeatedly after he took offense to getting head in the head with projectiles from their Nerf guns, around 7 p.m. on Monday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/28/21 - 9:29 am

Dr. Stephen Dorner, an emergency-room doctor at Mass. General, posts video taken by an MGH physician's assistant, on her way home after an overnight shift caring for Covid-19 patients, who asked a woman on the Orange Line to pull up her mask.

Of course, it didn't end there: Read more.

By adamg - 12/27/21 - 5:17 pm

The MBTA shut power on the Orange Line inbound at Back Bay shortly after 5 p.m. after a man somehow wound up under the platform there. Firefighters got the semi-conscious man out by 5:15 p.m. and all firefighters left the tracks, letting the T restore power and service not long after.

By adamg - 12/20/21 - 4:34 pm
Wanted for robbery and assault and battery

Surveillance photo by TPD.

Surveillance photo of attack

Transit Police report they are looking for two men they say robbed one man and stomped a second in the Downtown Crossing station concourse around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

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