Shortly before the southbound platform was evacuated as well. Photo by Fatty.
UPDATE, 4:45 p.m.: Transit Police report the package has been "cleared"- by an X-ray - which means service can resume soon. But expect "severe" residual delays, the T warns. WBZ reports the object was a duffle bag with wires coming out of it.
Transit Police have evacuated the three Red Line platforms at Park Street due to a suspicious package on an Alewife-bound train there. There is no service in either direction.
John Berg reports the Green Line is still running through Park.
Boston Police arrived to help out with crowd control and to help determine what's in the package.
Park Street passengers are being told buses might be on the way as the T announces "severe" delays on the Red Line for the third day in a row.
All along the line, people sat in stuck trains stuck at stations or standing on platforms, waiting for announcements that didn't come on what was going on.
Katherine Fergason reports from South Station:
Okie dokie. After 40+ minutes waiting on the train at South St, they've had us get off. Announcement: red line is not running.
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Technophobia
By Markk02474
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 6:51pm
What is it about the sight of wires that sends people into panic? It happened today. It happened with the electronic cartoon ad campaign. Also car engine bays are now covered in plastic to hide any sort of scary functional components. People seem to be getting more and more ignorant about common everyday items and especially not understanding how they work, nor wanting to.
cold outside but a bike is
By Darryll J Fernald
Thu, 12/12/2013 - 11:25pm
cold outside but a bike is quicker than Red Line regardless.
You must be forgetting the
By anon
Fri, 12/13/2013 - 6:58am
You must be forgetting the thousands of people who don't want to bike several miles in below-freezing temps, or who have a lot of stuff they need to bring home which they can't carry on a bike, or who take the T to the commuter rail, which does not allow bikes at rush hour.
Even my bike is stowed
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 12/13/2013 - 10:04am
Normally I would agree, but my lungs don't. In any event, the T needs to work.
Also, be aware that the commuter rail does allow folding bikes, for those who might be interested. And you can carry a whole lot more on a bike than on your person.
Urban Ring
By BostonUrbEx
Fri, 12/13/2013 - 8:31am
*Steps onto soap box*
*Ahem!* I'd like to take this opportunity to note just how critical an Urban Ring would be in situations such as those we've been experiencing all week long. A circumferential transit route has its own merits to begin with, but the potential benefits are unrivaled by anything else. The only problem is cost. It is easily the most costly project that one could come up with. If there was a way to keep expenses down to the true cost, I would say we should be knocking down doors for the project. GLX Somerville and BLX Lynn are huge, but don't offer a whole lot in system capacity increases nor significantly improved mobility on a region-wide scale.
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