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It was tool time on the T, at least until the police got to Andrew

By adamg - 9/23/21 - 9:58 pm

Transit Police report officers rushed over to Andrew station on the Red Line Wednesday morning after getting word that two guys had walked out of a Quincy store with several thousand dollars of merchandise they hadn't paid for - and then used the Red Line as their escape route. Read more.

Problem of the hour: Red Line without power

By adamg - 9/21/21 - 9:02 pm

At 8:51 p.m., the MBTA announced "a power problem near South Station" and that trains would be standing by at stations.

The announcement, however, doesn't mention anything about trains that were in tunnels when the power went off. Read more.

There's another train right behind this one, no doubt

By adamg - 9/21/21 - 9:27 am
Overpacked Red Line train this morning

For the first time since the Before Times, Johnmcboston couldn't get on a Red Line train because it was too crowded, although if you look closely, it might be that people just don't want to get as close as they might once have before the virus.

Not quite the waiting room in Beetlejuice, but ...

By adamg - 9/16/21 - 12:22 pm
Line outside the CharlieCard store at Downtown Crossing

Around noon, Massmikmouse photographed the scene outside the CharlieCard store in the Downtown Crossing/Park Street Corridor of Doom: Read more.

Public-health professor at BU dies in fall through unsafe stairs at JFK/UMass

By adamg - 9/13/21 - 10:41 am
Jones

David Jones, an associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, died Saturday afternoon when he fell through a rickety set of stairs between the JFK/UMass T station and Old Colony Avenue. Read more.

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Shuttle buses become essential when the Red Line dies at Central

By adamg - 8/30/21 - 1:33 pm

The MBTA says it's running shuttle buses between Harvard and Park due to an unspecified "power problem" at Central.

Red Line situation again dire, this time due to an Ashmont track fire

By adamg - 8/27/21 - 10:11 am

Boston firefighters are at the Ashmont station on the Red Line, where an apparent electrical fire along the tracks there has knocked out service on that branch. The T says riders should begin scouting for the shuttle buses it says are on the way.

Earlier this morning:
At every Red Line station an angry mob, due to a train that's deader than a doorknob.

At every Red Line station an angry mob, due to a train that's deader than a doorknob

By adamg - 8/27/21 - 8:04 am

The Red Line is a mess this morning due to what the T says is a train with "a mechanical problem" at Downtown Crossing.

Nothing ever dies on the Red Line

By adamg - 8/26/21 - 11:02 am
Old Red Line map

Jon Hillman wonders at the age of this route map he spotted on the Red Line today.

Two-fisted brick smasher sought for attack at Andrew station

By adamg - 8/24/21 - 4:50 pm
Andrew suspect

Surveillance photo via Transit PD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy with a brick in each hand who smashed a man with them at the Andrew Square Red Line station around 1:45 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.

Hey, kids: The T says it's time to get down and party hardy again

By adamg - 7/18/21 - 10:35 pm
MBTA ad poster that calls for less isolating, more maskless partying

You're still supposed to wear a mask on the T and thanks to the delta variant, Covid-19 numbers are beginning to slowly rise in Massachusetts again, so what better time for the T to try to get people back on the subway than with ads showing maskless young people whooping it up? Our own Ron Newman spotted this today at Charles/MGH. Read more.

The crowds began to swell when the Red Line went to hell

By adamg - 7/13/21 - 9:03 am
People waiting for non-existent shuttle bus at JFK/UMass

Nick Favorito was among the growing hordes of Red Line commuters at JFK/UMass when a "power problem" shut things between Park and JFK/UMass down this morning: Read more.

Man sets up impromptu entertainment center on Red Line platform at Harvard, but that's not why he was arrested

By adamg - 7/9/21 - 11:57 pm

Transit Police report arresting a man watching a movie and fiddling with his Playstation on the TV he plugged in on the inbound platform at Harvard around 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday - not for his unique way of wiling away the time underground but because he was wanted on charges of attacking somebody in Roxbury. Read more.

No McGruff: Stray dog takes a bite out of police at Shawmut station

By adamg - 6/12/21 - 6:31 pm

Transit Police report an officer was chomped three times by a large dog at the Shawmut Red Line station around 5:45 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

He saw something, he said something and the T did nothing, at least at first

By adamg - 6/10/21 - 9:40 am
Broken Park Street step with cone

If you happened to be at Park Street yesterday and noticed a cone alerting you to a broken step, you can thank Odd Onsentino, who reports what happened after he spotted the saggy stair: Read more.

When that new Orange Line train slid off the tracks at Wellington, there was a bit of an explosion

By adamg - 6/9/21 - 11:04 am

WCVB posts video of the Wellington derailment that led the T to pull all of the new Orange and Red Line trains off the tracks back in March: Read more.

East Boston man charged with stomping cabbie at Braintree T stop

By adamg - 5/24/21 - 3:37 pm

Transit Police report arresting an East Boston man at the Braintree Red Line station who, they charge, punched a cabbie to the ground and then repeatedly kicked him in the head after the driver told him he could not take him anywhere because he was at the station to pick somebody up. Read more.

MBTA engineers say they're looking for a fix to a key problem with new trains: The longer they run, the more force is needed to make the wheels navigate switches

By adamg - 5/10/21 - 1:48 pm

DingDingDing's Child reports from today's MBTA uberboard meeting: Engineers say that as the wheel-bearing "trucks" on the new Orange and Red Line trains age, they require more force to turn when going across switches, which may have contributed to the Orange Line derailments at Wellington. Read more.

Person falls on tracks at JFK/UMass

By adamg - 4/26/21 - 5:32 pm
Crews getting person off tracks at JFK/UMass

John Smith captured T workers, firefighters and EMTs getting a person off the Red Line tracks at JFK/UMass this afternoon.

The T halted Red Line service around 5 p.m. to allow the person's rescue; service has since resumed.

Woman sliced in the neck in Alewife parking garage

By adamg - 4/16/21 - 2:47 pm

Transit Police report officers responding to a report of a stabbing found a woman who had "sustained a serious laceration to her neck area" around 2:30 a.m. on Thursday inside the parking garage at the Alewife T station, where she was congregating with other homeless people. She was taken to a Boston hospital for treatment.

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