Red Line

For the Red Line, let us pray: There's a dead train near Broadway

By adamg - 10/18/23 - 10:29 am

The MBTA reports delays of up to 20 minutes on the Red Line due to a train that's decided not to run anymore near Broadway.

MBTA brings back the trackless trolley, at least for a couple weeks

By adamg - 10/16/23 - 10:34 am

Trackless Mattapan Line.

Lee Toma surveyed the Mattapan Line and the Red Line Ashmont branch, now in the thick of the MBTA's 16-day repair "surge." Read more.

Mattapan Line, part of Red Line shut for two weeks tomorrow

By adamg - 10/13/23 - 9:02 pm

The Dorchester Reporter urges riders to plan ahead - and consider the Fairmount Line, which will be free to CharlieCard holders during the shutdown.

Tips from the city of Boston.

This is something odd to hear: Red Line stopped by a wheelchair

By adamg - 10/12/23 - 6:00 pm

A roving UHub correspondent found his roving suddenly coming to a halt on an outbound Red Line train just before Andrew around 4:40 p.m. due to a wheelchair just sitting in the tracks at the station. Read more.

Finally: The perfect house for somebody who loves the Red Line

By adamg - 9/30/23 - 9:05 pm

78 Glendale St. in Dorchester seems like just the place for a large family, with seven bedrooms and three bathrooms. And one Red Line room. Scroll through the interior photos at that link. Keep scrolling. It'll hit you: A wall-size mural of a Red Line train, only one that then extends into the hallway with a door that lets you enter a "train" room that looks like what you'd get if you turned a Red Line car into a room (only with a giant circled F instead of a T).

Via Ari Ofsevit.

The Red Line was downed by a train stuck way underground

By adamg - 9/30/23 - 11:10 am

The MBTA had to roll out buses to replace the Red Line between Alewife and Harvard this morning after a train exhaled its last at Porter Square, the deepest station on the line. Things are now back to what passes for normal these days, the T reports.

Free rides on the Fairmount Line in October for CharlieCard holders

By adamg - 9/27/23 - 9:10 am

The MBTA announced today that the Fairmount Line will be free between Oct. 14 and 29, at least to people with CharlieCards - as a possible replacement for the Mattapan Line and Ashmont service on the Red Line, which will be shut then for track repairs. The T will also be running shuttle buses along the Mattapan and Ashmont lines then.

Red Line situation turned dire when trash barrels caught on fire

By adamg - 9/25/23 - 10:01 am

The MBTA had to shut Red Line service inbound from Harvard Square after paper in rubbish barrels along the tracks underneath Quincy Street caught fire around 9:30 a.m. Read more.

For third time this year, woman of Asian descent is attacked on the Red Line, by teens who then smashed a train window, police say

By adamg - 9/22/23 - 1:40 pm

Photo via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for "several juvenile males" they say taunted a woman of Asian descent - then went after other passengers who tried to intervene, before they smashed a train window and fled at JFK/UMass around 11 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

At least it wasn't a boombox

By adamg - 9/22/23 - 11:09 am

Ginnette, who just had foot surgery, hobbled onto the Red Line this morning:

So your phone needs its own seat now?

Man sought for rush-hour sexual attack on the Red Line

By adamg - 9/18/23 - 1:24 pm

Photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say started rubbing his penis against a woman from behind on a Red Line train between Charles/MGH and Park Street around 7:55 a.m. on Friday. Read more.

Shirtless man sought for racist attack on woman at Broadway Red Line stop

By adamg - 9/16/23 - 10:15 pm

Surveillance photos showing shirtless man in shorts

Surveillance photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man who attacked a woman of Asian descent at Broadway on the Red Line around 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 8. Read more.

Oops, they did it again: Feds once again threaten to be very stern with the MBTA after yet more safety lapses involving track workers

By adamg - 9/16/23 - 10:24 am

The Federal Transit Agency is once against threatening to treat the MBTA very harshly after once again learning of incidents in which T workers on the tracks faced possible death. Read more.

Another day we don't have to worry about the Red Line red lining

By adamg - 9/12/23 - 5:03 pm

Nine minutes for the next train to Alewife on the Red Line

Roving UHub photographer Raymond P. Ausrotas shows us the arrival board at Park Street at rush hour today.

And then he shows us what's under the arrival board at rush hour today: Read more.

Turtles once again passing the Red Line by

By adamg - 9/11/23 - 12:03 pm

Chris Friend points us to Transit Matter's Red Line slow-zone chart, which shows the Red Line now has more delays from slow zones than it did when the MBTA announced speed delays across all the subway lines due to slow zones. Read more.

Feds arrest former Transit Police sergeant for alleged role in covering up beating of a homeless man after DA had dropped the charges

By adamg - 8/31/23 - 11:27 am

The FBI today arrested former Transit Police sergeant David Finnerty, 47, of Rutland, for his alleged role in helping one of his underlings cover up the way that officer used a baton to beat a homeless man at the Ashmont T station - and then arrest the man for on a bogus charge for attacking him. Read more.