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By adamg - 1/29/24 - 5:59 pm

At 5:36 p.m. on the first full day of Green Line operations in awhle, the T reported delays of up to 20 minutes on the Green Line due to a trolley whose poor heart gave out at Hynes.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 3:20 pm

Transit Police report arresting Calvin Freeman 38, of Jamaica Plain at Hynes on the Green Line after he threatened several riders there with a knife around 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/18/23 - 6:47 pm

A dead trolley at Hynes means outbound Green Line service is facing at least 20 minute delays, just as people are relying on the Green Line to get to Kenmore for the Sox/Yankees game. Or as Michelle Greenberg reports:

Stuck on green line trying to get to Fenway. Train lost power all green line shut down

By adamg - 5/23/23 - 8:26 am

Transit Police report arresting a convicted sex offender with a golf club at Hynes on the Green Line after he used the club to threaten a couple who declined to give him money around 11:45 p.m. on Monday.

By adamg - 7/16/19 - 1:52 pm
Graffiti

What's green and white and indecipherable all over?

Royce

Transit Police report arresting a Jamaica Plain man on charges he was caught red-handed spraying green and white graffiti on a wall at the Hynes Green Line stop last night.

Read more.

By adamg - 9/26/18 - 6:49 pm

The MBTA reports outbound delays of up to 20 minutes due to a dead trolley at Hynes.

By adamg - 6/12/17 - 12:31 pm

The MBTA reports "minor" delays because of a trolley that is lying prostrate at Hynes.

By adamg - 4/11/17 - 9:28 am
Repainting Hynes station on the Green Line

Jeff Tamagini watched workers give Hynes on the Green Line some fresh paint this morning.

By adamg - 1/3/17 - 10:51 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today overturned a Dorchester man's convictions for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior at the Hynes Green Line stop in October, 2010 because prosecutors didn't present any witnesses to testify they were "shocked" or "alarmed" at the way he openly displayed his genitals, as required by Massachusetts public-decency laws. Read more.

By adamg - 12/1/16 - 10:52 am
Christmas treets at Hynes station on the Green Line

Kyle Clauss couldn't help but notice the Christmas decorations at Hynes this morning.

By adamg - 7/16/16 - 1:33 pm

Just "minor" delays on the Green Line so far, the T reports.

By adamg - 3/4/16 - 8:43 am

Angel reports from an inbound Riverside Line trolley that got just past Hynes and then had to stop around 8:15 a.m. because of signal problems:

"This train is a nightmare!" and "I can't wait to get off this thing." Who said it? The driver!

By adamg - 12/10/14 - 4:47 pm
Dark trolley station in Boston

A shame there's no Twitter-controlled Christmas trees at Hynes station, because that might lighten the place up a bit now that the regular lights have failed, as Derrick shows us.

Above ground, meanwhile, traffic lights have gone on strike in the area of South Station.

By adamg - 9/3/14 - 4:50 pm

The state Department of Transportation and the MBTA said today they're soliciting bids for development above state land at Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue - and say the project is key to making the existing Hynes Green Line station handicap accessible.

By adamg - 5/20/14 - 8:28 am

At 8:20 a.m., Anna McCarter tweeted:

VERY disabled Green Line D train between Kenmore and Hynes.

By adamg - 5/10/14 - 8:31 am

Head over to ArchBoston for a discussion about an entrance to what used to be the Mass. Ave. trolley stop that workers uncovered the other day - then promptly filled right back in. With some photos of when the station was a trolley hub (more photos).

By adamg - 2/27/14 - 6:18 pm

Hynes is being evacuated due to a smoking train.

This comes an hour or so after an inbound Red Line train breathed its last at Broadway, creating what the T acknowledged were "severe" delays.

By adamg - 1/31/14 - 8:39 am

A man arrested for masturbating at the Hynes Green Line stop on Jan. 16 was arrested again yesterday for an incident last year in which the same woman reportedly saw him doing the same thing at the same spot in the same station last March..

Transit Police reported arresting Salah Koutaiby, 49, of East Boston for open and gross lewdness after a woman waiting for an inbound train reported seeing him "exposing himself and committing a lewd act."

By adamg - 2/19/13 - 9:20 am

At least this time the track problems were at Harvard instead of Central. Meanwhile, shortly after 9 a.m., Meghan M tweeted:

Green line inbound passengers. My train is so 100% stuck between kenmore & hynes. Expect delays. Also send breakfast.

And to top it all off, the electronic signboard at Park Street continues to show White Sox ads.

By adamg - 10/15/12 - 8:32 pm

MBTA photoMBTA photo.Forty years ago, artist Dennis Kowal loaned the MBTA his "Constellations" statue for installation at the Hynes Green Line station.

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