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Red Line
By adamg - 6/9/23 - 9:23 am
The train in question. Photo by Lee Nave Jr.
An apparent electrical fire on an inbound Red Line train at Central filled the train and then the station with smoke around 9 a.m., as passengers were evacuated, Cambridge firefighters rushed down into the station and the T kept tweeting increasing delays due to what it only called "a mechanical problem." Read more.
By adamg - 6/3/23 - 11:12 pm
The MBTA reports trains are running again on the Red Line between Harvard and Alewife, OK, with 20 minute delays, after crews managed to wrestle a dead train at Davis out of the way.
By adamg - 5/29/23 - 9:51 am
A roving UHub Red Line passenger took a photo this morning of the water spilling onto the third rail at Porter Square. He also took some video: Read more.
By adamg - 5/25/23 - 10:37 pm
The MBTA reports 25-minute delays on the Braintree branch even after workers managed to dispose of a train "which had its brakes activated," and not in a good way, at North Quincy.
By adamg - 5/25/23 - 2:15 pm
Update: The T says it had to send in another train to push the dead one all the way to Cabot Yard in South Boston.
The MBTA is reporting delays up to 30 minutes on the Red Line as "our crews remove a train that was disabled at Porter Square."
By adamg - 5/24/23 - 5:54 pm
The MBTA does not say if it fixed a recalcitrant door on a Red Line train at Andrew, or just hauled the poor train away, but says service is back to what passes for normal these days.
By adamg - 5/23/23 - 3:35 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that MassDOT went too far in telling the owner of a small parcel between Cypher and B streets that it was just going to build tracks and facilities for testing new Red Line cars on the land with no compensation whatsoever. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/23 - 11:39 am
Boston's Leslie Knope particularly enjoyed a ride on the Red Line yesterday (you'll need to turn your sound up):
By adamg - 5/13/23 - 11:08 am
WHDH reports smouldering third-rail wiring filled Central Square on the Red Line with smoke and forced the shutdown of the Red Line between Davis and Park this morning, but that everything is now back to the new normal on the Red Line.
By adamg - 5/10/23 - 12:26 pm
The MBTA reports a train with "mechanical issues" is causing 15-minute delays on the Red Line.
By adamg - 5/10/23 - 11:12 am
Boston.com reports the Harvard PhD student who suffered a detached collarbone when hit by rigging for a biowarfare sensor installed for a test in 2012 and then forgotten about plans to sue the MBTA for negligence.
By adamg - 5/5/23 - 9:09 am
At 8:42 a.m., the MBTA dolefully reported delays of up to 20 minutes on northbound side of the Red Line due to a dead train near South Station. Or as Ginnette put it:
The Red Line train is stuck in a tunnel before South Station G-d only knows when we are getting out of here.
By adamg - 5/2/23 - 2:58 pm
Sera Congi reports that the 200-lb. frame and device that fell on a woman at Harvard yesterday was a leftover from tests conducted by the T, the state and the federal Department of Homeland Security to see if sensors could provide early warnings of a biological attack on a subway system. Read more.
By adamg - 5/2/23 - 12:29 pm
Roving UHub photographer Raymond A. snapped the newest falling-equipment zone, at Harvard Square station, where a utility box disassociated from the column it was attached to yesterday, hitting a woman who had to be taken to a local hospital for observation, a couple months after a ceiling tile almost beaned another rider at the station.
By adamg - 5/1/23 - 7:21 pm
WCVB reports she was taken to a local hospital for observation. Photo of the aftermath.
It comes after another rider was almost beaned by a falling ceiling tile at the station in March.
By adamg - 5/1/23 - 5:00 pm
A high-school student from Jamaica Plain was confined to his home - except to be allowed out to attend school - for his alleged role in a grocery attack on a woman at the Broadway Red Line station on Thursday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/23 - 10:17 pm
Fire under a Red Line train. Photo by Fuad.
A fire that broke out in Charles Circle underneath the Charles/MGH station shortly before 9 p.m. sent smoke billowing into the station and caused delays on the Red Line of up to 20 minutes.
By adamg - 4/28/23 - 11:38 am
Transit Police report they are looking for five juveniles they say jumped a woman at Broadway station around 4 p.m. yesterday, stole her bag of groceries, then began throwing items from it at her head. They ran out of the station, the woman had to be transported to a local hospital for facial injuries, police say.
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