The MBTA has scheduled a press conference at Orient Heights at 3:45 p.m. to go over "the completion of critical track work" on the Blue Line. T officials might want to find another way to get there than the Blue Line itself, because at 12:46 p.m, it reported delays of up to 20 minutes due to a Blue Line that kicked the bucket at Aquarium.
Roving UHub photographer captured workers waiting for a signal to work on signal at Wood Island this morning.
A couple hours after the MBTA told an inquiring rider that, yes, it has removed all the slow zones on the Blue Line, it reported delays on the Blue Line due to some sort of signal problem near Wood Island.
HoofbeatsEqualZebra lives on Fairmount Hill, just perfect to catch all the sound from the train yards and tracks of Readville, including the now infamous 22-minute stuck-on-blast hornshow late in the evening of April 16. He even recorded part of it (only 40 seconds, but for full effect, just let it keep looping for 22 minutes).
Boy, it sure rained buckets early this morning, huh? In case you managed to sleep through it all, you could still get a feel for just how much rain fell inside Ruggles station, where Handmaid captured some of the many fine barrels the T put in to capture all that water inside the station.
A consultant's recorder at the Readville yard used by CSX last year.
Frustrated residents from Readville, Dedham and Milton told the MBTA and state Rep. Rob Consalvo (D-Hyde Park) this evening they are fed up with the overnight vibrations, humming and train horns from Readville's two train yards that they say have especially bedeviled them since 2020. Read more.
A group of Rockport residents yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against the way their town is planning on moving forward with rezoning to comply with a state mandate to increase allowable housing density near MBTA stations (federal courts let people file suits even on Sundays). Read more.
The MBTA reported a Red Line train expired at Charles/MGH around 3 p.m.
Update: Transit Police report they've IDed the guy.
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say started harassing a woman on the Green Line at Kenmore and finished by punching her in the left side of her face at Park Street, shortly before 10 p.m. on April 17. Read more.
At 11:47 a.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays due to "a signal issue" at Park Street.
The MBTA reports delays on the Red Line due to signal problems at Broadway. Trains, the T advises, may stand by at stations, maybe go out for a bite to eat while the problem is worked on.
Artist's representation.
Supposedly, there will be a march on Monday from Park Street to the MBTA headquarters in Park Square to demand the T put large googly eyes on the fronts of its trains. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the company that sells space on billboards on MBTA property in Boston has to pay city property taxes on the structures. Read more.
There were some signal issues at Braintree tonight that were bad enough the T rustled up some buses to run between there and Quincy Adams, but the T assures us the signals are working again.
Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say spat in the face of a bus driver "without provocation" at Eutaw and Meridian streets around 5:45 p.m. on April 2.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050.
The Cambridge Fire Department reports a man was extricated from under the first car of an inbound Red Line train Wednesday night.
Firefighters arrived shortly before 11 p.m. and guided the man - who remained conscious - out from under the train around 15 minutes later, after getting confirmation that the power to the third rail had been shut. He was treated at the scene for some injuries, then transported to a local hospital.
Hitachi Rail, hired by the MBTA in 2015 for what is now a half-billion-dollar project to install a network of devices designed to prevent trains north of Boston from running into each other or getting up to unsafe speeds, yesterday sued the authority for what it says are $158 million in overruns and delays caused by alleged T bumbling. Read more.
Abandon all hope - or take the ferry between Maverick and downtown - the T advises.
Martin Lieberman noticed a developing theme among signs people held to cheer on the runners today. Another example.
Hugmajesty watched the runners rolling by near Cleveland Circle: Read more.
A roving UHub photographer reports from Beacon Street at Kent Street in Brookline, where the Green Line stop was supposed to remain open until 10 a.m., but which was closed at 8:40 a.m. Read more.
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