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By adamg - 9/6/23 - 8:28 pm
Remains of the vehicle

Remains of the vehicle. Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report that a woman in an MBTA Ride had to be hospitalized after a harrowing ride from Woburn to downtown Boston behind a guy who had jumped into the vehicle and sped off, around 3:30 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 11:15 am

Transit Police report they are investigating a case of bus rage at Tremont and Wigglesworth streets near Brigham Circle around 3 p.m. on Tuesday: Read more.

By adamg - 9/5/23 - 10:19 pm
Benjamin

Benjamin on security footage at Downtown Crossing and at the phone store.

A Cambridge man who was arrested in March by Boston and Cambridge police for robbing the JP Wireless store, 319 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, was charged again today, this time by the FBI after he was charged with violating the federal Hobbs Act for interfering with interstate commerce through threats or violence. Read more.

By adamg - 9/3/23 - 2:13 pm

The MBTA reports delays on the outbound E Line due to a trolley that met its maker at Northeastern.

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 4:36 pm

The MBTA announced it's running shuttle buses between BC and Washington Street due to "an overhead wire problem" near BC.

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 10:57 am

The MBTA announced today it's shutting the Ashmont branch of the Red Line and the Mattapan Line between Oct. 14 and 29 for "critical track work." Read more.

By adamg - 8/23/23 - 5:23 pm

The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the inbound B Line due to a trolley that got to Washington Street then decided, nope, it's not going to risk going down that hill.

By adamg - 8/23/23 - 5:19 pm

The MBTA commuter-rail Twitter feed is lighting up like a pinball machine as one train after another is delayed getting out of and into South Station due to what the T says are "downed wires."

By adamg - 8/23/23 - 5:10 pm

Jennifer O reports from a Braintree-bound Red Line train that is just sitting on the tracks just past JFK/UMass: Read more.

By adamg - 8/22/23 - 10:17 am
Wanted man

Surveillance photo via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say creeped out a woman even before he sat next to her and kissed her on a Blue Line train after it left State around 11 p.m. on Aug. 12. Read more.

By adamg - 8/20/23 - 11:44 am

Shortly after 10 a.m., the MBTA reported Blue Line delays of 10 minutes this morning after a vandalized train had to be taken out of service at Wonderland.

Transit Police say "juveniles smashed the window out with their feet," so the train had to get a new window.

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 2:11 pm

And that would explain all the debris on the Northeast Corridor tracks in Mansfield. The National Weather Service reports on why there was so much debris on the Northeast Corridor tracks: Read more.

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 12:04 pm

The MBTA reported at 11:14 a.m. it had suspended all Providence Line service "until further notice due to debris on the tracks from severe weather in the Mansfield area. At 11:37, Keolis reported a train to Boston had left Wickford Junction but would hold at Attleboro because some of that debris remained on the tracks. Read more.

By adamg - 8/16/23 - 12:14 pm

Mayor Wu's office is looking for applicants for the new Boston-specific seat on the MBTA board of directors recently approved by the state legislature and Gov. Healey. Read more.

By adamg - 8/14/23 - 2:34 pm

Transit Police report they are looking for a teen they say punched a man in the mouth on an Orange Line car at Downtown Crossing around 9 p.m. on Friday after he asked the kid and his pals to stop threatening other passengers and blocking the train's doors with their Bluebikes. Read more.

By adamg - 8/14/23 - 9:41 am
Inspecting where the trailer roof used to be

Inspecting where the trailer roof used to be. Photo via TPD.

Around 6 a.m. on Friday, a truck driver from Columbus, OH, found out what happens when you ignore the "Low Clearance" sign on a railroad bridge after disregarding the "posted warning signs of height restrictions" in Canton. Read more.

By adamg - 8/13/23 - 11:47 am

The Red Line had its share of problems yesterday, but the Most Broken Transportation Authority award for Saturday has to go to the Green Line, on which the afternoon turned into rides from hell over and over again, including the train that had to be taken out of service at Haymarket because of an Elizabeth Warren of an air-conditioning problem: Read more.

By adamg - 8/11/23 - 9:34 am

Wired reports that a couple of students at Medford Vocational-Technical High School (note to Wired: It's in Medford, not Boston) read about how back in 2008, some MIT students figured out how to hack CharlieTickets, and that intrigued them, and they looked into it. Read more.

By adamg - 8/11/23 - 8:51 am

Keolis first reported that train 143 from North Station to Newburyport was 35 to 45 minutes late due to a "mechanical issue," then updated the train was simply canceled and dumped its passengers at Beverly. Read more.

By adamg - 8/10/23 - 1:15 pm

Transit Police report arresting a West Roxbury man they say became outraged that another rider wouldn't let him use his phone, so he whipped out a knife and threatened the rider with it yesterday afternoon. Read more.

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