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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 Paul Levy - 3/16/07 - 6:02 pm

Does anyone out there know how to get the names of street performers who perform in the MBTA stations? I heard a great guitar/vocal duo today at 2pm at the Gov't Center stop, singing "Rosa" and other great Spanish pieces. I would like to hire them some day.

By adamg - 3/15/07 - 8:22 am

On Lost in Boston, Mike reports the final, final, no really we mean it this time final trip of a Boeing-Vertol trolley will be 11 a.m. tomorrow, not today.

By adamg - 3/14/07 - 10:29 am

On Lost in Boston, Mike reports that the last Boeing-Vertol trolley will make its final run tomorrow:

The train will leave Riverside station at approximately 11:00AM, make its way to Government Center, and leave at approx. 11:44AM for its final run to Riverside. Keep in mind this is a regular service trip and regular fares will be collected, however you're sure to see some "rail fans" with cameras and camcorders in hand!

By adamg - 3/14/07 - 10:05 am

Lyss marvels at an outbound Riverside driver who was not only pleasant but did nice things for riders:

... Our driver stopped and opened the door for someone who almost missed the train. She waited until a family had settled in with their stroller and several small children after they almost went flying across the aisle. After calling a middle aged couple up to the front to pay (I think this was around Fenway), she was gracious about their mistake upon learning that they were from Western Mass.

By adamg - 3/13/07 - 5:15 pm

See, kids, if you're going to do a flash mobby kinda thing, here's how - get people to dress up like characters from the tea-party scene in "Alice in Wonderland," then get on the T, then commandeer the last car of a subway train and party like it's 1865.

By adamg - 3/9/07 - 3:00 pm

Does bright orange make you more likely to want to stab somebody? Alyssa Boehm ponders that as a possible answer to the recent designation of Back Bay station as Stab City.

By Lyss - 3/9/07 - 11:03 am

I have to take the Green Line (D line) from Longwood to Govt Center. How long should I expect this to take during a.m. rush hour? I don't trust the MBTA trip planner on their website.

By adamg - 3/8/07 - 8:49 pm

over and over and over and over again

The hot dogs slowly spin over and over and over again. Somebody must buy them, right?

By adamg - 3/8/07 - 5:47 pm

TransitWorks is:

Dedicated to maintaining and improving the quality of the MBTA, and seeks to use customer outreach and feedback activities to help the MBTA provide you, the rider, with the best service possible.

They're currently looking for volunteers to take notes on Breda cars on the E branch of the Green Line.

Via Charlie on the MBTA.

By adamg - 3/8/07 - 11:05 am

As if you don't already have enough on your mind when you get on the subway ("Back Bay station is next; please be careful exiting the train - blood is slippery"), now you have to worry about being serenaded by the LaRouche Youth Movement:

By adamg - 3/6/07 - 10:32 pm

Mats Tolander gives the MBTA high praise for a solid month of service on the Lowell commuter line and for a recent Green Line trip (Kenmore to North Station) that not only took 15 minutes but involved an act of some courtesy by a trolley driver.

The Bachelor in Porter Square, meanwhile, sings the praises of Mr. Robo-Voice on the Red Line for being accurate for a change at Porter.

By adamg - 3/6/07 - 9:01 am

Carpundit marvels at two aspects of the story of the T employee charged with feeding thousands of tokens into CharlieCard machines: The quality of the surveillance cameras the T uses and:

... Best news from the story? You can put your tokens in the machines. Now I know what to do with the dozens of #$*! tokens I have in my change jar.

By adamg - 3/5/07 - 12:16 pm

WBZ-TV reports:

An electrician who worked for the MBTA for 20 years has been charged with stealing more than $40,000 in coins and tokens. Police say he used some of the money for dozens of $100 CharlieCards. ...

By adamg - 3/3/07 - 6:22 pm

Iron Bowl and company drove to South Station today to hop on the Silver Line to see the USS John F. Kennedy, docked in South Boston, but after they paid their fares, they learned the T had suspended Silver Line service in that direction, because too many people were already trying to get on the ship:

... We could not even get a refund. ...

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