Zachary Dimona-Viveiros died Dec. 12 from injuries he suffered when another man on an inbound Red Line train sitting at JFK/UMass suddenly decided to bash him in the head with a fist-sized piece of quartz around 8:50 p.m. on March, 4, 2022 - after the MBTA ignored complaints from other riders about the man's erratic behavior, his father says in a wrongful-death suit against the MBTA. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 03/01/2025 - 2:47pm
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By adamg - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 12:38pm
By adamg - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 9:24am
On Monday, the Red Line was zip-zip-zippee. This morning, though, the MBTA announced delays of up to 15 minutes on trains out of Braintree because it turns out you can replace all the tracks you want, but the trains are going to go slow again if there are signal problems at JFK/UMass.
By adamg - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 2:30pm
Transit Police report "a large affray amongst juveniles" at the JFK/UMass T stop around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday ended with four teenagers under arrest, one after he allegedly tried to shank another combatant with a knife that could be disguised as a pen.
By adamg - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 9:52am
This morning, the day after the MBTA announced the end of slow zones on the Blue Line (if not the end of dead trains and malfunctioning signals, the Red Line has turned into a swampy morass of not-getting-anywhere-fast. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 04/04/2024 - 9:48am
Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.
Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building in Saugus. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/31/2024 - 5:20pm
At 4:12 p.m., the MBTA reported a deceased Red Line train at JFK/UMass.
By adamg - Fri, 01/26/2024 - 4:35pm
An outbound Red Line train thought it could, but it couldn't, so it died nearJFK/UMass, causing delays that reached 15 minutes shortly after noon but which were cleared shortly before 12:30, the MBTA reports.
By adamg - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 2:03pm
Transit Police report arresting a man they say "while armed with a knife, threatened to stab a fellow passenger without provocation," on an inbound Ashmont train about 7:45 a.m. Police say the man was arrested at JFK/UMass on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
By adamg - Tue, 01/16/2024 - 3:12pm
By adamg - Sun, 01/07/2024 - 10:19pm
By adamg - Fri, 09/22/2023 - 1:40pm
By adamg - Wed, 08/23/2023 - 5:10pm
By adamg - Sat, 08/05/2023 - 2:55pm
Transit Police report arresting several teens they say responded to a woman's request to settle down on the Red Line Thursday night by pointing gel-pellet guns at her - with one opening fire and shooting her in the mouth. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 4:35pm
The MBTA shut power on the Red Line in both directions at JFK/UMass after a third rail caught fire just before the station around 4:20 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/29/2023 - 9:59am
The Dorchester Reporter reports the T has added a couple million dollars to its 2024-2028 capital plan to hire a consultant to look at redesigning JFK/UMass, where one entrance had to be shut for four months and where a man fell to his death on a stairway missing stairs that had never been removed despite being marked as unsafe.
By adamg - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 1:16pm
By adamg - Sat, 02/18/2023 - 1:26pm
By adamg - Mon, 01/09/2023 - 11:22am
The Dorchester Reporter reports the entrance, closed since November as a menace, could re-open after workers finish getting it back into safe shape.
By adamg - Thu, 12/22/2022 - 2:38pm
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