When you read stuff like this, your assumption would be that the first places to get MBTA buses with surveillance cameras would be neighborhoods where, oh, people get shot on T buses.
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By adamg - 4/12/07 - 12:05 pm
Zolok notices:
A brief case toting, dignified,nigh lawyerly looking young woman wearing a stylish black over coat, black nylons and white galoshes decorated with multicolored polka dots. ...
By adamg - 4/10/07 - 8:16 pm
Josh Ourisman somehow survived a trip on the CT1 bus from Central Square to Mass. Ave. and Newbury today:
By adamg - 4/8/07 - 10:36 am
Jorge photographs a bird's nest at the Suffolk Downs T stop built mainly out of dryer lint:
... It's almost three feet high and two wide. ... Apparently it's not occupied right now but it will be interesting to see who uses it. ...
By adamg - 4/6/07 - 8:36 pm
Jeff Egnaczyk just doesn't get why people get so upset at other people talking on cell phones on the T:
... It's possible people get upset at others engaging in conversation when they're stuck on the miserable B Line without anything to do. Maybe they get the impression that the person is flaunting his or her importance instead of their wealth. I don't know. It really is a stupid thing to get mad about.
By adamg - 4/5/07 - 9:09 am
Colin the Bold reports on an Orange Line character. DJ Night Train?
Via Drifting Focus.
By adamg - 4/2/07 - 1:56 pm
OK, maybe not. Still, Masukomi did cut into a busted CharlieCard and reports on her findings. She wanted to see if she could cut out all of the card except for the microchip so she could put it on her keyring; alas, there's a wire antenna wound around the outer edges of the card.
By adamg - 3/30/07 - 5:09 pm
Three men spotted fleeing bus after 3:50 p.m. shooting in Grove Hall.
Update: Victim dies.
By adamg - 3/29/07 - 10:14 pm
So the Big Dig isn't the only part of our transportation infrastructure always on the verge of collapse. A state commission reports roads, highways, public transit, you name it, have fallen billions of dollars behind basic maintenance needs.
A roundup of reactions:
Casey Ross summarizes the lowlights.
By adamg - 3/29/07 - 2:51 pm
B.K. DeLong was relaxing before the train ride home last night when he spotted something large fall off the platform onto the tracks:
... Despite hundreds of people staring at the platforms and schedule no one reacts. Maybe I'm seeing things. So I go over to the Platform 5/6 door and look out the window. Definitely looks like a body. I walk out onto the platform and carefully crane over the side to see better - yup. Pretty sure at this point. ...
By adamg - 3/29/07 - 10:01 am
Jen Stewart reports the answer to the riddle is six:
Two to pass out brochures, and four to stand with their hands in their pockets, staring longingly at the Dunkin' Donuts stand 5 feet away.
By adamg - 3/27/07 - 10:09 am
Hobbling around with a broken ankle gives one a newfound appreciation for just how cruel and obnoxious Green Line drivers can be, Jeff Egnaczyk reports - adding that in contrast, one learns that Boston Garden workers can be really kind.
By adamg - 3/27/07 - 8:59 am
Because if they did, Tape might have gotten off at his normal stop instead of having the driver on the 89 bus scream at him and demand he never step foot on that bus again.
By adamg - 3/26/07 - 9:15 am
SuperMark wonders about what he saw around 10 p.m. Saturday:
... i'm pretty sure someone got stabbed, but was hoping for an actual story. All I know for sure is that some guy was covered in blood, the EMTs were joking with him, there were no trains stopping at Ruggles, and the cops were questioning a group of kids on a bus. ...
By adamg - 3/24/07 - 8:59 am
Stick your tongue out to see if you can tell if it's blue from the Powerade you just drank.
From Carmen, who also provides the scoop that there are some nice Starbucks baristas out there.
By adamg - 3/22/07 - 8:30 am
Zolok was on an SL 2 bus last night when the driver just zoomed past a knot of 20 or so people. He continues:
... But then it gets even stranger, the driver pulls up to the very next stop and lets on a single solitary well insulated passenger, just as the doors whooshed open the cheery electronic voice intoned "Please report any unattended packages or suspicious behavior to the bus-driver".
Which put me in a quandary, how can I report the bus-driver's suspicious behavior to...the bus-driver? ...
By adamg - 3/22/07 - 8:26 am
Ron Newman reports a chatty customer service agent told him some stations will start going unstaffed after either 7 or 10 p.m., starting this Saturday.
By adamg - 3/20/07 - 8:53 am
The Bachelor in Porter Square reports the Red Line is no longer crawling between Harvard and Porter Squares (he also re-infects our brains with the slogan for a long-gone local furniture chain - what is it about local furniture stores that make their ads so annoying?).
Carmen reports on an unusual pair of stinky panhandlers who got on at Central Square:
By adamg - 3/19/07 - 7:58 am
Robert David Sullivan discovers that the translation software on mbta.com works too well - it translates not just directions, but the names of stations (to its credit, the T does warn non-English-speaking visitors that if they want actual station names, they'll need to use the English map). He takes a look at the French version of the site and discovers such stops as:
Person Who Carries Bags Square (between Harvard and Davis);
The Suffolk that Swallows the Station (Suffolk Downs);
By adamg - 3/18/07 - 8:38 pm
Lexus drivers need to learn: They are no match for a Green Line trolley.
Via MBTA Watch.
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