E Line

Whadaya know? You need to pay attention turning left across trolley tracks

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 4:22 pm

Car stuck on tracks along Huntington Avenue

Photo via TPD.

Transit Police report the driver of this car proved unable to handle the intersection of Huntington and Longwood avenues shortly before 7:40 a.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

E Line couldn't get far due to a damaged car

By adamg - 5/16/23 - 5:22 pm

RadRebe shows us the scene on Huntington Avenue around 4 p.m. when a crash left one car dead on the E Line tracks, blocking the trolleys. The T advised riders to take the 39 instead.

Some cars on the E Line are really small

By adamg - 3/5/23 - 12:45 pm

PT watched as somebody drove an old Honda Fit right down the inbound E Line tracks last night.

Suburban man to face charges after speeding onto Green Line tracks at MFA, police say

By adamg - 2/6/23 - 12:12 pm

Sign says "Here All Belong" - except SUV drivers on the tracks. Photo by TPD.

Transit Police report that around midnight, a 22-year-old driver from the Framingham suburb of Ashland was speeding down Huntington Avenue when he blasted through a red light and then "crashed into a traffic pole and somehow landed on MBTA GL M.F.A. stop." Read more.

MBTA resumes E Line trolley service

By adamg - 8/21/22 - 4:31 pm

The T announced today it's started running trains again between Brigham Circle and Heath Street after work to replace tracks and to add equipment that, when turned on, should help keep trolleys from crashing into each other. Read more.

Thank goodness for the 39 bus

By adamg - 8/1/22 - 9:37 am

The T reminds Green Line riders that it's shutting down the ol' E Line between Copley and Heath between Aug. 6 and Aug. 21 to make improvements, including sprucing up the tracks it didn't get to the last time it shut the line. Riders who'd rather not just walk from Back of the Hill to Copley Square can instead ride the 39 bus, the T says.

Masshole tries to barrel past stopped E trolley; sends woman getting off train to the hospital

By adamg - 6/13/22 - 2:01 pm

After police arrived at the scene. Photo by Justin Mc.

A woman getting off a trolley stopped on South Huntington Avenue, at the turn from Huntington, didn't make it to the sidewalk yesterday evening, because a motorist who disregarded the fact the trolley was stopped and had its door open, ran into her. Read more.

Ouch, that really smarts: Dead train by Museum of Fine Arts

By adamg - 11/12/21 - 3:10 pm

The MBTA advises that a dead trolley is gumming up the works on the E line inbound at the MFA. The 39 bus, meanwhile, just keeps rollin' along.

Green Line becomes a trackless trolley at Heath

By adamg - 10/19/21 - 9:10 pm

Tracks? Photo by Ari Ofsevit.

An E Line trolley leaving Heath didn't get far tonight after some of the wheels on a Type 8 car jumped the tracks, Ari Ofsevit reports.

The line is now starting and ending at Brigham Circle.

Cancel the E Line past Brigham Circle? Officials vow to fight MBTA and say, if anything, the line should be extended to Centre Street

By adamg - 11/11/20 - 9:36 pm

With trolley behind her, Pressley says transit justice is racial justice.

Elected officials gathered at the Green Line terminus at Heath Street today to demand the MBTA rescind its plan announced this week to end the E Line at Brigham Circle. Read more.

Slip slidin' away on South Huntington

By adamg - 12/1/19 - 6:48 pm

Slippery conditions on South Huntington Avenue

Patrick Ford took a look at South Huntington Avenue around 6:30 p.m. and saw a bus stuck in the snow. A T inspector in an SUV pulled up and tried to push the bus, but it didn't seem to be working: Read more.

The Green Line news is pretty stark: There's a dead train at Science Park

By adamg - 9/6/19 - 5:08 pm

The MBTA reports buses are now running between Lechmere and North Station due to a trolley with "a power problem" at Science Park.

E Line service comes to a halt; a fallen tree is at fault

By adamg - 5/31/19 - 11:25 pm

A tree on South Hungtington Avenue that suddenly realized gravity is not just a good idea, it's the law, came crashing down across the street at Back of the Hill, taking trolley power lines with it and forcing the T to end service at Brigham Circle.

The E Line had quite the delay when a train died at LMA

By adamg - 4/12/19 - 3:30 pm

The MBTA reports service on the E Line is back to normal after a trolley died at the Longwood Medical Area stop and caused delays of up to 20 minutes.

Woman pinned under trolley at Heath Street

By adamg - 3/21/19 - 10:15 pm

NBC Boston reports the woman is expected to survive.

E Line can't go far; riders can blame a car

By adamg - 2/12/19 - 7:27 pm

The MBTA reports a driver somehow got his or her car stuck on the E Line tracks between Northeastern and Brigham Circle, which means trolleys can't go anywhere and riders are being told to take the 39 bus instead.

It's a total mess on the E Line; it's at a stop like the 39

By adamg - 11/2/18 - 4:04 pm

The T has canceled the E Line past Brigham Circle due to a trolley and a stopped box truck exchanging some love pats near the Riverway and is advising riders to jump on the 39 bus instead - but the buses are having their own problems due to all the traffic piled up as a result.

T says use the 39; power problems on the E Line

By adamg - 7/20/18 - 11:05 am

The T reports it's canceled service on the E Line between Brigham Circle and Heath Street due to a "power problem near Mission Park."

Brigham Circle shut so somebody could lay some pipe

By adamg - 6/21/18 - 4:31 pm

Paint the World watched the slow progression of a giant pipe across Brigham Circle and the Green Line this afternoon.

Colleen got a closer view: Read more.

Maybe get out a funeral wreath: There's a dead train headed to Heath

By adamg - 6/15/18 - 3:13 pm

The T reports delays of up to 10 minutes on the E Line due to a trolley that pulled up lame at Park Street.

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