Green Line

WCVB reports a trolley near Park Street apparently rolled backwards into another trolley around 7:30 p.m. The trolleys were evacuated but there were no injuries. The Boston Fire Department responded, but left after determining it was a minor incident - although WCVB reports service was halted between Park and Government Center for about an hour.

WCVB reports a trolley with five passengers onboard hit an out-of-service train sitting on the tracks at East Somerville shortly after midnight. Read more.

Around 6:40 a.m., an MBTA manhole at the Green Line station at Harvard and Commonwealth Avenues in Allston began to emit smoke, bringing in Boston firefighters and forcing the T to rustle up some buses to provide service between Washington and Babcock streets until its engineers could fix the problem.

Besides being located in the town of Horseheads, NY, which is worth a detour just to say you've been to Horseheads, NY, the village of Elmira Heights is also home to the US factory for Spanish train maker CAF, where the MBTA's next-gen, Type 10 Green Line trolleys will be built - 100 or so of them, 40 feet longer than the current trolleys and with multiple bendi-spots and all handicap accessible doors. Read more.

For the third time in two weeks, somebody in a Toyota wound up ensnared on Green Line tracks, this time at the end of the B Line at Boston College. Read more.

An Amesbury woman who suffered a fractured skull and pelvis and had to have part of her leg amputated due after falling under a Green Line trolley in 2023 that had begun pulling out of BU Central last week sued the MBTA for negligence, saying the operators of the two-car train failed to check to make sure the outside of the train was clear before starting to leave the stop. 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.

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.

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.