The MBTA was forced to rustle up some buses to get Riverside Line riders between Fenway and Reservoir due to an issue with the overhead wires near Brookline Hills.
Green Line
The T is reporting delays of up to 15 minutes along Beacon Street due to a trolley that diverted to Train Valhalla at St. Mary's.
The MBTA reports that signal issues at Government Center mean Green B and C trains are currently making Park Street the end of the line.
Update: Transit Police report they've IDed the guy.
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say started harassing a woman on the Green Line at Kenmore and finished by punching her in the left side of her face at Park Street, shortly before 10 p.m. on April 17. Read more.
Artist's representation.
UpdateGoogly-eyed Green Line trolleys take to the tracks,/a>.
Supposedly, there will be a march on Monday from Park Street to the MBTA headquarters in Park Square to demand the T put large googly eyes on the fronts of its trains. Read more.
Martin Lieberman noticed a developing theme among signs people held to cheer on the runners today. Another example.
Hugmajesty watched the runners rolling by near Cleveland Circle: Read more.
A roving UHub photographer reports from Beacon Street at Kent Street in Brookline, where the Green Line stop was supposed to remain open until 10 a.m., but which was closed at 8:40 a.m. Read more.
Brookline.news reports the woman charged with the Longwood graffiti was recently fired from a job at the MBTA.
Select Board Chairman Bernard Greene says the MBTA quickly responded to a town request to erase the "Zionist Pigs" and peace symbol somebody sprayed on at least one signboard at the Longwood Green Line stop yesterday.
Greene adds: Read more.
The MBTA is blaming a faulty trolley for Saturday morning's derailment on the outbound B Line, rather than the track and other work that was completed just the day before: Read more.
Mace man and Lysol lady, surveillance photos via TPD.
Transit Police report they are looking for a man who maced numerous passengers on a Green Line trolley at Lechmere around 2:25 p.m. yesterday and a woman who sprayed Lysol into the eyes of a driver of a Green Line shuttle bus at Babcock Street around 11 p.m. on Feb. 21.
If either look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050, anonymously if you prefer.
The MBTA switched back to bustitution between Copley and Babcock Street on the B Line this morning after a trolley derailed near Kenmore Square shortly before 9 a.m. Also:
Cleveland Circle and Riverside trains will terminate at Kenmore. Westbound service will be rerouted to the E Branch at Copley. Riders can also use local bus route 57 for service between Babcock St and Copley.
Update: Yes, it is a bit early for baby ducks. The duck was an adult female hooded merganser.
David Yamada took a screen capture of a Green Line delay message at 9:36 a.m. today: Read more.
Hey, remember when the T blamed National Grid for some blown cable that took out three subway lines?
WCVB reports MBTA General Manager Phil Eng said today that the power cable that shorted out or blew up or something that tripped all the other power cables at North Station to shut down, taking the Blue, Green and Orange lines with them didn't belong to National Grid - it was the MBTA's own cable. Read more.
Michael A. Burstein reports he was on an inbound C Line trolley this afternoon when it dipped into the tunnel between St. Mary's and Kenmore and suddenly the lights went off and all the riders were plunged into a nightmarish world where they had to outgun all the other riders - and a series of underworld wraiths, each worse than the one before. OK, OK, the driver rebooted the train, the regular lights came back on and the rest of the journey proved uneventful.
The MBTA reported delays on the B Line at 12:36 p.m after a trolley died at Packard's Corner.
John Mcboston watched as a T crew filmed an actor and commuters making a video at North Station about how to use the new faregates - just moments before all faregates everywhere on the T were set to spring free for four hours as recompense, or something, for this morning's non-service.
MBTA General Manager Phil Eng says the T's subway lines will be free between 3 and 7 p.m. to try to make up for this morning's three-line disaster, which he blamed on some sort of failure in a National Grid "feeder cable" supplying power to the T via North Station. Read more.
Update: T blames National Grid feeder cable.
The MBTA reports the Orange, Green and Blue lines all died this morning due to some sort of power and signal problem. The power is back, but trains are moving like molasses (in the traditional sense, not the Boston sense). Read more.
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