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By adamg - 1/9/23 - 11:22 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports the entrance, closed since November as a menace, could re-open after workers finish getting it back into safe shape.
By adamg - 11/22/22 - 3:51 pm
The Dorchester Reporter gets the scoop: Inspectors found a critical structural problem along Columbia Road that required the entrance to be shut over the weekend - along with "additional structural issues" that led to the concourse over the Braintree tracks to be shut - for possibly the next four to five weeks.
The Savin Hill T stop also has some issues, the Reporter adds.
By adamg - 11/21/22 - 10:31 pm
A roving UHub photographer snapped this shot of the only way to get into JFK/UMass from Columbia Road now that the T has shut the original entrance for some sort of construction. For some reason, the T officially would prefer that people coming from the west take the extra hike to the Old Colony/busway entrance.
By adamg - 11/21/22 - 11:13 am
The MBTA has shut the pedestrian entrance to JFK/UMass station from Columbia Road. Read more.
By adamg - 11/17/22 - 1:20 pm
The wife of David Jones, the Boston University professor who died after falling through missing steps on a rickety stairway next to the JFK/UMass T stop, today formally blamed the MBTA and MassDOT for his death, in a lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.
By adamg - 6/24/22 - 3:26 pm
The Dorchester Reporter explains why another set of stairs at the JFK/UMass Red Line and commuter-rail station is shut.
By adamg - 1/21/22 - 4:20 pm
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office says there's nobody to charge for the way Boston University professor David Jones died by falling 20 feet through missing stairs outside the JFK/UMass Red Line stop last September. Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/21 - 9:47 am
The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the Braintree branch of the Red Line due to a deceased train. One rider reports from the train it didn't quite make it into JFK/UMass:
We're across from the Globe building just sitting here.
By adamg - 10/30/21 - 2:21 pm
Transit Police have released photos of a man they say grew angry that Braintree train wasn't leaving JFK/UMass when he wanted it to, so he punched an MBTA worker in the face, around 1:10 a.m. on Oct. 17.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text to 873873.
By adamg - 9/20/21 - 12:01 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports state workers this weekend removed the stairs with the large gap next to the JFK/UMass T stop, a week after a BU professor died there.
By adamg - 9/13/21 - 10:41 am
David Jones, an associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, died Saturday afternoon when he fell through a rickety set of stairs between the JFK/UMass T station and Old Colony Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 4/26/21 - 5:32 pm
John Smith captured T workers, firefighters and EMTs getting a person off the Red Line tracks at JFK/UMass this afternoon.
The T halted Red Line service around 5 p.m. to allow the person's rescue; service has since resumed.
By adamg - 10/11/20 - 5:11 pm
Surveillance photo via Transit Police.
A man Transit Police say attacked a woman he was piggybacking behind at the JFK/UMass Red Line stop last Tuesday also punched an Uber driver on Arch Street on Friday afternoon, according to the driver's passenger at the time. Read more.
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