RadRebe captured the scene near Brigham Circle shortly before 6:30 a.m., when a driver in a car with Connecticut plates had somehow gotten onto the Green Line tracks. Read more.
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E Line
By adamg - 1/24/24 - 9:19 am
The day on the brand new Green Line Extension started bright and early and full of buses: The MBTA announced at 5 a.m. it couldn't run trains on the tracks, not because they were out of gauge again but because the signals weren't working near East Somerville. But the bustitution only lasted until 5:17 a.m., when the T updated those darn signals were signaling again.
By adamg - 11/8/23 - 2:36 pm
As he rested his weary feet and got a bite to eat inside Cafe Beirut on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain today, roving UHub photographer Sam Greenblatt had a ringside seat to watch a crew taking down at least some of the trolley power poles that had remained up along Centre Street, South Street and South Huntington Avenue long after the T stopped running the E Line between Heath Street and the Arborway. In December, 1985. Like 38 years ago.
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 - 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.
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.
By adamg - 2/6/23 - 12:12 pm
Sign says "Here All Belong" - except SUV drivers on the tracks. Photo by TPD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By adamg - 12/1/19 - 6:48 pm
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.
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.
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.
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.
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