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.
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By adamg - 5/9/23 - 9:53 pm
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.
By adamg - 5/8/23 - 12:31 pm
Back in the day, you could buy popcorn on the Green Line, but these days, with everybody on a hair trigger and their last nerve, the T now tells us you're not supposed to eat on the train or bus. Read more.
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 - 5/4/23 - 10:38 am
Dan Kennedy reports that Andrea Estes now has "former reporter" on her Globe bio page and that Globe Editor Nancy Barnes has told the newsroom that she is looking at what went wrong with Estes's story about nine T managers working from hundreds of miles away when three of them were actually in Boston the whole time.
By adamg - 5/3/23 - 9:55 pm
A Los Angeles man who took in a Patriots game at Gillette Stadium on Sept. 26, 2021 today sued the MBTA and the Kone escalator company for the injuries he says he suffered when the escalator he was riding up from the train at Back Bay after the game suddenly went into reverse, throwing him to the bottom of the escalator, where he became pinned as other people fell on top of him. Read more.
By adamg - 5/3/23 - 1:45 pm
The MBTA reports delays of up to 20 minutes on the outbound B Line due to a trolley at Warren that thought it could, but it couldn't.
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 - 5/1/23 - 11:52 am
Nichole Davis reports that while the T has applied for a "gray checkmark" to prove it is who it says it is on Twitter, it's not going to pay for the privilege, let alone pay even more to access a Twitter service for providing automated info feeds and that it is "prepared to adjust our social media and messaging strategies as needed." It notes it has a presence on other platforms, including TikTok.
By Oliver Blake - 4/30/23 - 9:51 am
Is a temporary steel wall enough? The T now surrounds one Aquarium entrance with steel panels before potential flooding. Photo by Nicholas Bauer.
By adamg - 4/29/23 - 6:01 pm
But the MBTA reports "this delay has been cleared," which we assume means something other than that they shoved the train off side of the viaduct.
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 - 5:05 pm
WCVB has video of the center section of a new Type 9 buckling at Boylston the afternoon of Patriots Day, which caused monumental delays in part because some riders were kept on other trolleys for close to an hour. The T says all other Type 9 trolleys passed inspection.
By adamg - 4/28/23 - 4:56 pm
Dan Kennedy reports on a correction the Globe ran today because it turns out three of the MBTA managers it said lived hundreds of miles from here all actually live in Boston - two of them so close to T headquarters in Park Square that they normally walk to work.
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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