Yesterday, we recounted Trevyn Langsford's saga about missing a performance of a Somerville musical about the T because he was on a Red Line train behind another Red Line train that had died near Charles/MGH, and then he and everybody else was ordered off so his train could push the disabled train out of the way (well, to a train yard).
We later heard from Laura Dickerson, who was on the train that died. Read more.
Update: The train may have been disabled by morons.
Trevyn Langsford had tickets to see T: An MBTA Musical at 2:30 today at Somerville's Rockwell Theater, but missed the show because his Red Line train got stuck behind a train that died at Charles/MGH. Read more.
Wonder what the guy on the left is thinking?
A roving UHub photographer reports he rode the Red Line from downtown all the way down to Braintree this afternoon across from a woman holding two signs - the one in the photo above and the one behind it, that read "Following Jesus to the End." He adds:
She was surprisingly normal. Sat there quietly until pulling into Braintree and the signs slipped out of her hands and hit my foot. "Oh my goodness. Forgive me." We both laughed.
Roman Lilligren couldn't help but notice the old Red Line car being towed down Dorchester Avenue in South Boston and then unhitched at the On the Dot project along Dorchester Avenue from Andrew Square north. Read more.
When it rains, it pours on the Red Line: At 5:03 p.m., the MBTA reported 25-minute Red Line delays due to unspecified debris on the tracks at Central. That came after the 3:56 p.m. announcement about delays due to signal problems at Braintree.
A judge has ordered a South Boston man who already has a long record for violent crime held pending a dangerousness hearing next week after his arrest on charges he tried to slice somebody up at the Andrew MBTA station on Tuesday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Banker & Tradesman reports the MBTA is looking to turn the giant frown that is the crumbling garage at Alewife station into a smile by letting a developer replace it with something that would be the ultimate in transit-oriented development. The T acknowledges it would have to work closely with a developer to ensure construction wouldn't disrupt transit service, so more like the work at South Station than the work at Haymarket.
Update: At 8:35, the T was reporting 25-minute delays to somebody on the tracks at JFK/UMass.
At 7:22 p.m., the MBTA reported 20-minute delays on the Red Line due to a deceased train at Andrew. At 8:19, Adam Castiglioni asked when the trains would start up, because he's still stuck in the system, more specifically, at North Quincy, where not a single train has come through in either direction in 20 minutes.
The MBTA reports an outbound Red Line train at Charles/MGH that's developed a sudden fear of crossing the water is gumming up the works towards Alewife.
Head car with smashed-in window. Photo by TPD.
Transit Police report officers responded to North Quincy on the Red Line on a report of a woman using "a metal object" to smash windows on a Red Line car around 8:30 p.m. on Friday. She will be charged with malicious destruction of property, was brought to a local hospital after officers "determined she was in need of psychological services," police say.
No, of course we're not referring to "Skinhead on the MBTA," which is, basically an updated Charlie (oi, oi, oi!). In 1965, Tom Lehrer went on WTBS, back when that was still the MIT student radio station, and sang a brief ditty he composed back in 1944 about what we now call the Red Line.
Via Nonelvis.
The MBTA reports all that work on the Red Line between Park and JFK/UMass means it's eliminated 13 more slow zones on the line. But all that work can still be for nought if trains keep dying on those zippy tracks, as happened tonight when the T reported delays of up to 20 minutes due to a train gasping its last at Broadway.
At 7:49 a.m., the MBTA reported that the Red Line, after part of it took a refreshing week off, had delays because of signal issues near Broadway. Fortunately, they didn't last long - the T updated at 8:01 that the signals were once again working. But the MBTA slow zone map still shows slow zones between Park and JFK/UMass.
Photo of seized weapon by Transit PD.
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.
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.
The MBTA reported a Red Line train expired at Charles/MGH around 3 p.m.
At 11:47 a.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays due to "a signal issue" at Park Street.
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