WFXT reports the two men were surrounded near the Shawmut station bike rack around noon and asked for money and when they refused, one teen pulled a knife and then the group punched the men in the heads. Unclear if they then got money.
Red Line
By adamg - 5/14/22 - 10:31 pm
Firefighters and EMS responded to Park Street station around 10:15 p.m. due to a person on the southbound tracks. He was quickly determined to be dead, and firefighters removed his body. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/22 - 10:56 pm
Transit Police and Boston firefighters responded to the inbound side of the Andrew Red Line station around 10:40 p.m. after a man somehow wound up on the tracks, bleeding from the head, next to the third rail as a train was coming in.
The man was not under the train, so firefighters were able to quickly get him off the tracks and hand him over to Boston EMS for transport to a local hospital.
By adamg - 4/27/22 - 8:58 pm
Transit Police report arresting the man they say got on the Red Line at Ashmont last Thursday, carefully took off his pants and underwear, then got off before leaving the train at Savin Hill.
Read more.
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By adamg - 4/25/22 - 10:49 am
Photos via TPD.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Transit Police are looking for a man they say got on the Red Line at Ashmont Thursday morning, then took off his pants and underwear and proceeded to "commit a lewd act," which police do not specify but which you can probably figure out. Read more.
By adamg - 4/23/22 - 10:18 am
The T has been forced to bustitute between Alewife and Park Street this morning due to "a disabled train in the work zone near Kendall."
One rider reports: "my t driver called it what it really is…another derailment."
By adamg - 4/16/22 - 12:11 pm
WBZ reports the NTSB says Robinson Lalin was getting off the Red Line at Broadway around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday when his arm was trapped by a door and he was dragged to his death.
By adamg - 4/11/22 - 11:35 pm
WCVB talks to the family of Robinson Lalin, a father of two who died early Sunday when his arm got stuck in the door of an older 1500-series train inbound at Broadway station and was then dragged to his death.
By adamg - 4/11/22 - 9:18 am
Boston 25 reports the National Transportation Safety Board will help with the investigation into how a man was dragged to his death early Sunday when his arm got stuck in a Red Line car door at Broadway and the train then dragged him to this death.
Board investigators were last in Boston last year to investigate how one trolley plowed into another on Commonwealth Avenue.
By adamg - 4/10/22 - 12:31 pm
A man who got his arm stuck in Red Line train doors just before it left Broadway early this morning was pulled into the tunnel and to his death, according to a communication from the T to employees today.
WHDH reports emergency crews responded to the station around 12:30 a.m.
By adamg - 4/1/22 - 3:02 pm
Transit Police have released a photo of a guy they say went up to a woman with a phone in her hands, grabbed it and then hurled it onto the tracks on the southbound side of the Red Line at Downtown Crossing, around 11 p.m. on March 20. Read more.
By adamg - 3/18/22 - 8:10 am
It was Trouble City on the Red Line out of Braintree this morning due to a dead train near North Quincy.
By adamg - 3/16/22 - 8:01 am
Major issues on the Red Line this morning due to signal problems at Ashmont, the T and riders caught in it all advise. This is on top of earlier delays caused by a train with "a mechanical problem" at Davis.
By adamg - 2/23/22 - 5:20 pm
Too early to be practicing for the Olympic javelin toss.
For better or worse. But what it means is that if, oh, you're at Andrew on the Red Line and you decide it might make sense to throw some metal object onto the third rail and the T has to stop service so it can retrieve that item, chance are good Transit Police will pull a snap of you of one of the surveillance cameras, which should make it easier for them to find and arrest you. Read more.
By adamg - 2/21/22 - 10:10 pm
The MBTA was bustituting along the entire Ashmont Line for awhile tonight after a truck hit the bridge that carries the line over Freeport Street, but reported shortly after 10 p.m. the bridge survived the crash a lot better than the truck did and so regular service was resuming. Unclear if the truck storrowed or just sort of bounced off the bridge somehow.
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