The briefly speedy Orange Line is back to its old slow tricks due to signal problems at Forest Hills, at least according to the driver of the train the UHub mobile action news unit is currently on with its doors open and slowly beeping at Ruggles.
A 16-year-old was arraigned today on charges he opened fire on the Red Line platform at Broadway during rush hour last Friday, sending one man to the hospital with gunshot wounds to his thigh, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The MBTA is reminding riders that it's halting Red Line service between Harvard and Broadway at 8:30 p.m. this Sunday and continuing through Nov. 23. Well, actually, Nov. 24 - when service will be halted between Harvard to JFK/UMass. Read more.
The MBTA reports the day started with a switch problem near Wellington on the Orange Line and a dead trolley at Chestnut Hill on the Green Line. Both problems since fixed.
So far today, the MBTA has reported delays on the Red Line due to four trains giving up the ghost. Or maybe it's just one train that's keeps practicing for a remake of Sanford and Sons all the livelong day - at Quincy Center, Andrew, Broadway and Alewife.
Update: Suspect arrested.
A man was shot in the leg on a platform at the Broadway Red Line station around 5:30 p.m. Read more.
The MBTA reports it's finally cleared the last of the seemingly perpetual slow zones on the Orange Line this weekend, letting riders feel the full oomph of an speed-limit reaching trains for the first time since 2010, ending the days when wood-paneled Orange Line trains always lost races to snails and turtles at Forest Hills and between Tufts and Back Bay. Read more.
Eric the Half a T on City Hall Plaza.
Nick Schmidt moseyed onto the mock-up of a proposed next-gen Green Line trolley, the one that will have multi-segments, on City Hall Plaza today. He reports: Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects.
A developer that proposed an apartment building on 142-146 St. Mary's Street, on the Boston side of the border with Brookline last year has submitted new plans that call for a slightly smaller building, but one with a pedestrian path running from the Fenway stop on the Green Line on one side of the building to Medfield Street on the other. Read more.
Rendering via MBTA.
The MBTA says it will assemble a mock-up of its proposed new Type 10 Green Line trolleys - the ones 40 feet longer than current trolleys - for visits by prospective riders at City Hall Plaza next Tuesday and Wednesday. Read more.
Eric Esteves was among those calling for immediate action tonight to prevent more pedestrian fatalities around the Forest Hills MBTA station, following the Oct. 12 death of Glenn Inghram as he crossed Washington Street and was hit by an MBTA bus.
The vigil was held on Tower Street at Washington, near where Ingrahm was fatally hit.
Forest Hills residents have organized a vigil to honor both Glenn Inghram, who struck by an MBTA bus turning left out of the T station on Oct. 12 and to call on the state and city to take steps to make that and nearby intersections safer for pedestrians.
The vigil starts at 5:30 p.m. at Washington and Tower streets, where Ingrahm was fatally struck, just a few blocks from his Arborway apartment.
WCVB reports "numerous employees" have been put on leave as the MBTA investigates, well, something, at the Cabot Yards, which stores and maintains Red Line trains and buses.
The driver of an outbound trolley that derailed just past Lechmere at the start of the afternoon rush hour on Oct. 1, sending seven passengers to the hospital with minor injuries, barreled through the equivalent of a red light at more than three times the speed limit and derailed on a switch that was still shifting into place to get the train to a new track, the National Transportation Safety Board says. Read more.
Glenn Inghram died from injuries suffered under the wheels of an MBTA bus turning left onto Washington Street from the lower busway at Forest Hills at Tower Street this past Saturday - just a short walk from his home around the corner on the Arborway. Read more.
Michael Burstein notes the irony in MBTA ads showing a person in a wheelchair during National Disability Employment Awareness Month at Boylston station, which is inaccessible to people who actually use wheelchairs.
An MBTA bus turning left out of the lower busway at Forest Hills hit a pedestrian shortly before 11:55 a.m. Read more.
Streetsblog Mass reports the MBTA is warning commuter-rail could come to a screeching halt "within weeks" if its parent agency, MassDOT, goes ahead with its plans to tear down the Grand Junction rail bridge under the BU Bridge as part of its plans to completely rebuild the turnpike where the Allston tolls used to be. Read more
The Orange Line will be shut between Forest Hills and Back Bay Oct. 8 - 20 for some more of the repair work the T couldn't get to - or discovered it needed to do - during that month-long shutdown back in 2022.
Shuttle buses, natch. The T also suggests commuter rail or, closer to town, the Green Line.
Two of the many sights you can get to on the El.
Before the MBTA, before even Charlie got stuck on the MTA, there was the Boston Elevated Railway Co., the El, a private company formed out of streetcar, bus and, yes, underground subways in the Boston area. Read more.
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