The more the T fixes speed restrictions, the more speed restrictions pop up
CommonWealth reports on the seeming paradox of the percentage of subway tracks subject to speed restrictions has actually been going up of late, although it's still less than when the T first announced...
View ArticleMBTA says this time, no really, honest, for reals, it's fixed an infamous...
The T, which said it was going to fix the long-running, high-squealing slow zone between Tufts Medical Center and Back Bay when it shut the whole line for a month last year, said yesterday it's...
View ArticleWoman beats up elderly couple when they ask her to move her bag so they can...
Transit Police report arresting Kristen Kulch, 37, at the Wellington Orange Line stop around 2 p.m. yesterday for allegedly punching an elderly man and woman repeatedly after they asked if she could...
View ArticleOrange Line rider taken to the hospital after foot gets caught between...
NBC Boston reports Boston firefighters were able to free the woman around 5 p.m. on Friday, after which Boston EMS transported her to a local hospital. The T notes it did not move the train until after...
View ArticleProbably shouldn't be a surprise: Orange Line trains dropping like flies
Fun with the all new trains on the Orange Line: At 6:04 a.m., the MBTA reported a dead train at Wellington. At 7:56 a.m., the MBTA reported delays due to an earlier deceased train at Downtown Crossing...
View ArticleOrange Line rider threatened with knife after refusing to let strange guy use...
Transit Police report arresting a West Roxbury man they say became outraged that another rider wouldn't let him use his phone, so he whipped out a knife and threatened the rider with it yesterday...
View ArticleOrange Line rider punched in the mouth when he asks some teens to stop...
Transit Police report they are looking for a teen they say punched a man in the mouth on an Orange Line car at Downtown Crossing around 9 p.m. on Friday after he asked the kid and his pals to stop...
View ArticleFeds say after man robbed somebody of new Puma sneakers at Downtown Crossing,...
A Cambridge man who was arrested in March by Boston and Cambridge police for robbing the JP Wireless store, 319 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, was charged again today, this time by the FBI after he was...
View ArticleOrange Line rider to represent Boston on MBTA board
The Dorchester Reporter reports Mayor Wu has named Mary Skelton Roberts, an Orange Line rider from Jamaica Plain who works in the clean energy sector, as the city's new representative on the MBTA board...
View ArticleThat was no simple little quirk: Orange Line stopped by emergency track work
The day dawned bright and sunny, except on the Orange Line, where at 5:29 a.m., the MBTA announced"Shuttle buses replace train service between Malden Center and Community College due to rail...
View ArticleSeveral reasons not to have sex in an MBTA elevator, including if you already...
Somebody called Transit Police to report a couple involved in flagrante delicto in an elevator at the State Street T station last night.Officers who responded, around 10:10 p.m., found that in addition...
View ArticleToday's phrase: T delays
Right out of the gate, at like 5:15 a.m., the T was announcing delays on the Red Line because of problems completing overnight repair work. At 6:56 a.m., the T reported delays on the Orange Line after...
View ArticleMBTA announces major track-repair program for 2024, day after parts of the...
MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng this morning released a proposed schedule for track repairs across most of the T subway system in 2024 that will mean more of the multi-day shutdowns riders have grown...
View ArticleTeen charged with kicking and tripping man in his 80s at Forest Hills T stop,...
A 15-year-old was ordered held for 60 days at her arraignment today on charges she kicked and tripped an 84-year-old man at Forest Hills as she and her pals clowned on him Tuesday night, the Suffolk...
View ArticleNew Orange Line trains more reliable, surely, still, this morning one died...
At 6:58 a.m., the MBTA reported Orange Line riders could expect delays due to one of the brand-new trains suffering an embarrassing "mechanical issue" at Malden Center. The T updated at 7:28 a.m. that...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Something actually running fast at Forest Hills...
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about one of the clock faces in the tower at the Forest Hills MBTA station:Clock at forest hills facing Franklin park direction is about ten minutes fast....
View ArticleThe Orange Line died when a wire fried
A smoking electrical wire at Chinatown this afternoon forced the shutdown of the Orange Line - which the T had been promoting as a downtown alternative for the Green Line, which is shut for...
View ArticlePeople getting slicy on the T
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say sliced a man with a knife at the Wellington Orange Line stop around 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 29. Read more.Sun, 01/07/2024 - 15:20Neighborhoods:...
View Articlem.b.t.a. planet on xkcd 'escape speed'.
i came across this m.b.t.a. planet while playing xkcd 'escape speed':https://xkcd.com/2765/spoiler alert: there are blue line, red line, orange line, green line tokens to be picked up at various boston...
View ArticleMore long service suspensions planned for Red and Green lines next month;...
The MBTA today announced track work that will mean bustitution for extended periods on the Red and Green Lines next month - and a piddling two-day suspension on the southern end of the Orange Line for...
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