Four construction firms that teamed up to build the Green Line Extension say the company that designed key components of the new trolley line screwed up to the tune of more than $35 million in cost overruns, and they are demanding payment, in a suit filed today in Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.
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Bacon, in Space Force hat, inside the Capitol, via government sentencing memorandum.
A federal judge in Washington, DC last week sentenced Noah Bacon, 30, to one year and one day in federal prison following his conviction for traipsing around the Capitol as part of Donald Trump's failed autogolpe. Read more.
The wiring fire on a train at Charles/MGH this morning wasn't the only, um, excitement on the Red Line this morning. Owen reported:
I’m in red line car car 01717. As the train came into Davis station the ceiling at the very rear of the platform started crumbling with debris falling across the platform and a large cloud of dust. It send me and a handful of others running in case of larger debris.
It turns out that people in Cambridge and Somerville drink Bud Light just like everybody else, only, unlike in certain redder parts of the country, they are refusing to boycott the beer-like liquid, Cambridge Day reports. In fact, the news site quotes a worker at one local liquor mart who, on hearing a customer muse enthusiastically about the boycott, told him to move along.
State Rep. Mike Connolly of Cambridge announced this morning he's resigning from the Boston branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, where some members were moving to kick him out for the temerity of working with, and sometimes even endorsing, some non-socialist Democratic elected officials. Read more.
MassDOT announced today it's holding off shutting down the Union Square branch of the Green Line Extension until at least September after realizing that starting a six-week shutdown right after it shut the Sumner Tunnel without consulting with local officials about possible workarounds was kind of stupid. Read more.
WBUR report some Cambridge members of the Democratic Socialists of America are moving to expel state Rep. Michael Connolly, who represents Cambridge and Somerville from the organization, for refusing to join two-minutes hates of Maura Healey and Michelle Wu.
Update: Union Square shutdown delayed until at least September.
The MBTA announced today that the Green Line Extension will be shut between Lechmere and Union Square for six weeks starting July 18, not because there's anything wrong with the tracks this time, but so MassDOT can make repairs to the Squires Bridge, over which McGrath Highway crosses the tracks near Union Square. Read more.
The MBTA reports a "power problem" has knocked out the newest part of the Green Line, between Medford/Tufts and Lechmere, and says riders should consider taking the 80 bus instead.
Dueling lost-item ads on local telephone poles.
Zuzu's Petals, or somebody who really likes the wine bar on Hampshire Street in Inman Square, has been busy putting up fliers around the area in search of "lost" items - hats, vases and a single clog last worn there. Then, roving UHub photographer Andrea Gray reports, Lehrhaus, the new kosher tavern on Washington Street in Somerville, put up a flier for Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon's "A Book that Was Lost." Read more.
Sifu Tweety videoed a ride on the new community path along the Green Line Extension in Somerville today and set it to "Roadrunner." Read more.
The MBTA reports that the Green Line Extension Community Path for pedestrians and bicyclists that runs along the newest part of the Green Line in Somerville will officially open to the public tomorrow. Read more.
The MBTA reports trains are running again on the Red Line between Harvard and Alewife, OK, with 20 minute delays, after crews managed to wrestle a dead train at Davis out of the way.
Frank Solensky captured the scene, and the mood, at the Elm Street Taproom in Somerville's Davis Square tonight.
WBUR updates us on the latest round of MBTA repair shutdowns, which include shutting down the brand-spanking-new Green Line Extension for the first two weekends in June, because it turns out the T started running trains on it even though it wasn't completely done. The work involves various stuff along the tracks, not the still unopened community path in Somerville.
A man who worked as as a manager at PNC Bank's office on Boylston Street in the Back Bay was charged today with one count of bank fraud for the way he allegedly transferred money from a number of dormant accounts to new accounts that he controlled. Read more.
A.P. Blake spotted the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile at the Somerville Holiday Inn this morning.
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