D Line

If the signal problems on the T don't get you, a fellow rider might

By adamg - 2/28/23 - 9:29 am

Transit Police report arresting a Roslindale man on charges he sprayed a rider at the Fenway Green Line stop with "an unknown liquid" Monday night. Read more.

As MBTA readies to re-start the Orange Line and the northern end of the Green Line, it gets ready to shut the D Line

By adamg - 9/18/22 - 9:47 pm

Some of those charter buses will still come in handy later this week, when the T shuts down the Green Line's entire D branch for a total of 27 days over the next six weeks or so. Read more.

A major Fenway mess: Blue Jays score to excess, Green Line causes rider stress

By adamg - 7/22/22 - 11:05 pm

It's not just that the Blue Jays scored 28 runs at Fenway tonight (fans started chanting "Let's go Blue Jays!"), but the T reports an inbound Green Line trolley mistook itself for a Sox player and died at Fenway.

Whether you enjoyed the snow tonight probably depends on whether or not you were stuck in it

By adamg - 1/29/22 - 9:09 pm

Snow at Longwood station on the Green Line

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Roving UHub photographer Anna Geneva captured the Longwood Green Line stop tonight.

She probably enjoyed the view a bit more than the driver who managed to get a beefy SUV stuck on the Green Line in Cooldige Corner - not to mention the people in the trolleys on either side who got blocked by it, like Agiocochook1: Read more.

Mechanism aimed at keeping Muddy River floodwater out of a Green Line tunnel is disabling trolleys

By adamg - 1/21/22 - 6:30 pm

Updated with news about another trolley getting snagged tonight.

A mechanism at the mouth of the Riverside Line's Fenway tunnel that is supposed to help protect the tunnel from flooding is now damaging some pantographs that power trolleys as they move between the underground and surface-level tracks. Read more.

The D Line's fate is sealed; problems at Beaconsfield

By adamg - 1/21/22 - 1:13 pm

The T is running buses between Fenway and Reservoir because of some sort of power problem on the Riverside Line near Beaconsfield.

Falling trees make riding the trolley somewhat of an exercise in folly

By adamg - 8/4/20 - 4:43 pm

Downed tree at Newton Highlands. Photo via Ian Lamont.

Isaias may only be giving the Boston area a glancing blow, but it's enough to snap trees like matchsticks on the Mattapan Line between Milton and Butler and on the Riverside Line near Longwood and Newton Highlands. Buses have replaced the Mattapan trolley and D Line trolleys from Kenmore all the way to Riverside. Read more.

At least there aren't any fires, but the D Line has some troubled wires

By adamg - 3/3/20 - 11:55 am

Something happened to the overhead wires at Newton Highlands and that caused some significant problems on the Riverside Line, the MBTA reports.

Green Line riders sighing once more: Another new trolley with a broken door

By adamg - 2/9/20 - 1:57 pm

Broken door on a new Green Line trolley at Copley

Jonathan Berk was among the riders inconvenienced at Copley Square around 11:40 a.m. when yet another one of the brand-spanking new Green Line trolleys had to be taken out of service because one of its doors broke. He adds it wasn't just Green Line regulars who were put out - there were a lot of Orange Line riders trying to use the Green Line as a downtown replacement due to it being shut for repairs this weekend.

It's always important to obey traffic signs

By adamg - 1/22/20 - 10:13 pm

The meaning of the sign is pretty clear, and yet obviously the driver went way past it. Read more.

Riders could only pine for service on the D Line

By adamg - 1/10/20 - 5:47 pm

The MBTA reports the track was whack enough on the Riverside Line to round up buses to shuttle passengers between Reservoir and Chestnut Hill in the middle of rush hour, but that things are once again hunky dory.

The new year starts like the old one finished - with service on the Green Line diminished

By adamg - 1/1/20 - 7:53 pm

Shortly before 7 p.m., inbound service on the Riverside Line was delayed after a trolley's brakes seized up at Newton Highlands - a day after one of the new trolleys suffered an embarrassing failure at Park Street.

Green Line ride a bitch due to stupid dead switch

By adamg - 12/17/19 - 9:34 am

The MBTA reports delays on the Riverside Line due to "a switch problem" at Riverside. But that's not all. Phil R reports what he saw at Reservoir:

Another snowy day, another one of those new, state of the art IB #MBTA #GreenLine trains was just taken out of service at Reservoir. Complete with the sign showing "Call Police" when we passed it on my train.

With a thunderous crack, tree came down along D Line track

By adamg - 11/1/19 - 8:56 am

Downed tree in Chestnut Hill on the Green Line tracks

Cracked, fallen tree in Chestnut Hill. Photo by MBTA.

The MBTA reports it's restored service on the Green Line to and from Riverside, following a windswept tree cracking and falling along the line in Chestnut Hill during the storm. Rider can still expect some delays, but no longer have to get on a shuttle bus for part of their ride.

Tempest-tossed boats, trees land where they're not expected, thousands lose power, delays across the T

By adamg - 10/17/19 - 8:52 am

Matt Conti shows us a boat on dry land in the North End after the storm overnight. He has more photos of damage in the North End.

John Hanzl surveyed the damage along Harbor Towers: Read more.