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Imagine if they could run the new Orange Line train through the new Wollaston station

By adamg - 8/16/19 - 3:40 pm

New Wollaston Train Station

This woman, who loves, loves, loves the new Wollaston station, what with its gleaming and clean maps and signs and floors and stuff, would probably die of happiness on the spot if a new Orange Line train came through, so we feel bad about mentioning that JFK/UMass, Andrew and Broadway are as much "real Boston" as all the stops with more than two colors on the maps.

Wollaston Red Line station to re-open tomorrow

By adamg - 8/15/19 - 2:38 pm

After 20 months of work, the Patriot Ledger reports.

Red Line slower by more than a smidge due to work on the Longfellow Bridge

By adamg - 8/15/19 - 11:14 am

The MBTA tells Adam Castiglioni why Red Line trains were particularly slow over the Longfellow this morning:

Our Track Department performed maintenance work involving inspecting rail and tamping ballast at the northbound end the Longfellow Bridge. After this type of work a speed restriction is usually put into place. It is expected to be lifted after service tonight.

Red Line train has some aches in the form of busted brakes

By adamg - 8/14/19 - 4:10 pm

As Orange Line riders vie for the chance to ride that One New Train, Red Line riders get to shake their fists at the tracks in frustration, what with delays now up to 15 minutes caused by what the T says is "a train with its brakes holding" at Alewife.

Dorchester man ensures bears will avoid the Red Line, police say

By adamg - 8/14/19 - 9:51 am
Gomes

Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester man they say sprayed "a large can" of bear repellent inside an inbound Red Line train as it hurtled underground near Andrew station yesterday evening. Read more.

Lots of weekend bustitution for Green, Orange and Red Line riders this fall

By adamg - 8/12/19 - 7:39 am

WCVB reports the MBTA is planning some major amounts of weekend shutdowns this fall on the Green, Orange and Red Lines to get in some of that desperately needed repair work.

Red Line problems never stop: Evening ride now a flop

By adamg - 8/9/19 - 6:44 pm
Red Line riders dumped at Park Street

Tim Lawrence was among the hordes ordered off an Alewife train at Park around 6:30 p.m., around the time the MBTA was announcing delays in the other direction due to a wounded train leaving Alewife.

The delays came about four hours after the T announced: Read more.

Red Line won't be fully back to its old self until October, MBTA says

By adamg - 8/5/19 - 4:10 pm

The State House News Service reports.

South Boston woman charged with that attack on a disabled person at Harvard Square T stop

By adamg - 8/5/19 - 9:11 am
Drafahl

Transit Police report tips from riders led them to a South Boston woman for an incident last Wednesday in which a disabled person was physically assaulted and spit on at the Harvard Square T station.

Read more.

Police seek woman they say spit at, attacked disabled person at Harvard Square T stop

By adamg - 8/2/19 - 11:22 am
Wanted woman

Transit Police have released photos of a woman they say attacked a disabled person at the Harvard Square T stop around 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

Red Line train didn't come to play; had to be budged out of the way

By adamg - 8/2/19 - 10:09 am

The MBTA reports it's managed to regain control of the Red Line tracks from a train that was refusing to move on account of it having expired, causing delays of up to 15 minutes.

Red Line once more a mess; why is anybody's guess

By adamg - 8/1/19 - 6:18 pm
Dead Red Line train stuck at station

Marie Morris reports an inbound Red Line train made it about five-sixths of the way out of South Station when it came to a halt. Riders are reporting delays of up to 20 minutes now.

Boo hoo hoo: Dead train near Andrew

By adamg - 7/29/19 - 9:42 am

The MBTA is reporting Red Line delays of up to 15 minutes towards Alewife due to a train that expired near Andrew.

Entire Red Line slows to a crawl due to one train that just had to stall

By adamg - 7/24/19 - 6:21 pm

The MBTA reports the Red Line is not quite deader than a doorknob, but it's getting there, this time due to a train with "low air pressure" at Kendall/MIT, which we suspect isn't something you can fix with a bicycle air pump.

Police: Man who's had enough of this crap detains guy upskirting woman at Broadway T stop

By adamg - 7/24/19 - 2:52 pm
Wong

Transit Police report arresting Yoa Wong, 27, of Quincy, on charges he used his phone to photograph up a woman's skirt on the escalator at the Broadway Red Line stop yesterday evening. Read more.

How many foreign leaders have ridden the T?

By adamg - 7/23/19 - 12:15 pm
Boris Johnson on the Red Line with one of the few other riders during a 2015 blizzard?

In February, 2015, Boris Johnson, then mayor of London, got on the Red Line to try to get to some event at Harvard, but couldn't because we were having one of those blizzards.

Watch that Red Line train derail

By adamg - 7/19/19 - 10:49 pm

The MBTA has released video of the June 11 Red Line derailment at JFK/UMass. WBUR has a copy.

MBTA hopes to shave five minutes off Red Line rides by Aug. 15

By adamg - 7/19/19 - 4:32 pm
Working on Red Line wires

Working on the wires at JFK/UMass. Photo by MBTA.

With repairs to the destroyed JFK/UMass signal bungalows continuing apace, the MBTA announced today it hopes to restore fully automated signaling between JFK/UMass and Broadway by Aug. 15, which should cut five minutes off the longer Red Line commutes. Read more.

T spruces up Quincy Center Red Line stop with a fountain

By adamg - 7/17/19 - 9:53 pm

Somebody smashes a Red Line window at Park Street

By adamg - 7/15/19 - 8:18 pm
Smashed Red Line window

The smashed window at Charles/MGH. Photo by Katie Broida.

Shortly after 6 p.m., Steph Wilkinson reported somebody punched a window on her car of an Alewife train leaving Park Street: "Most of it is cracked." Read more.

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