MBTA announces major track-repair program for 2024, day after parts of the...
MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng this morning released a proposed schedule for track repairs across most of the T subway system in 2024 that will mean more of the multi-day shutdowns riders have grown...
View ArticleRed Line has more snarls due to dead train at Charles
Waiting for Godot, um, the Red Line, at Park.The MBTA reports 20 minute delays on the Red Line that won't be helped by the elimination of slow zones because a train is deader than a doorknob at...
View ArticleBlue Line riders in delirium due to train stuck at Aquarium
The MBTA reports Blue Line bollixing due to a train that sighed and died at Aquarium.Today's headline courtesy of Rob A.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleLatest plans for Arborway bus yard include eight acres for housing or other...
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on the MBTA's latest iteration on its plans to turn the Arborway bus yard into a garage able to recharge and maintain the battery-powered buses the T is planning on...
View ArticleMBTA knew the Globe was about to publish bogus info about some of its execs,...
CommonWealth Beacon digs up new info on the saga of the nine MBTA officials the Globe wrote lived well out of the T district when, in fact, only six of them did: The Globe had to print corrections and...
View ArticleService is back after Green Line track suffered a crack
The MBTA reported at 2:08 p.m. that Green Line service in both directions came to an abrupt halt due to a newly cracked rail inbound between Arlington and Boylston. At 3:19, after telling riders they...
View ArticleSmoke at Harvard wasn't that dire; T says the train wasn't on fire
Sure, Harvard station filled with smoke shortly after 8 a.m., but after getting the offending train out of the station, the MBTA responded to several people alarmed by the possibility they were on or...
View ArticleJamaica Plain man charged with threatening passengers at Hynes with a knife
Transit Police report arresting Calvin Freeman 38, of Jamaica Plain at Hynes on the Green Line after he threatened several riders there with a knife around 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.Wed,...
View ArticleMaybe if we held bake sales at every T stop ...
The MBTA said today that if we want the entire subway and commuter-rail system to be up to snuff, it'll cost nearly $24.5 billion - yes, with a 'b'. The T emphasizes that doesn't say anything about...
View ArticleSome people just can't leave their work at the office
Theodore Hook couldn't help but notice this traveling desk on the E Line inbound from North Station today.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleHistoric Boylston trolley spray painted again
A roving UHub photographer reports somebody got past the fences at Boylston and tagged up the PCC trolley sitting there - just like somebody did back in 2014.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleMBTA spending $550,000 to remove all those old trolley poles in Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain News reports the T decided it was time to remove the old poles along Centre Street before they started falling on people's heads.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleRed Line service briefly blew due to dead train at Andrew
An inbound Red Line train pulled into Andrew shortly before 6:30 a.m. and then it suffered an embarrassing door problem that forced all the trains behind it to back up until the T could get the train...
View ArticleThree sought for defacing historic trolley at Boylston
Transit Police report they are looking for the three men they say smeared the PCC trolley stored at Boylston station with graffiti around midnight on Nov. 12.If they look familiar, contact detectives...
View ArticleWhat's New York got that we don't? A transit system emerging from its quagmires
Gabrielle Gurley, who used to be a reporter here, compares the current state of the MBTA and the MTA. One of her conclusions: New York's system has a lot more support in its state legislature than...
View ArticleNothing new wrong with Green Line track, this time signal is out of whack
The MBTA reports it's started running trolleys to and from Union Square again, but that service on the stubbier end of the Green Line Extension remains slow because of a signal issue near...
View ArticleNew Orange Line trains more reliable, surely, still, this morning one died...
At 6:58 a.m., the MBTA reported Orange Line riders could expect delays due to one of the brand-new trains suffering an embarrassing "mechanical issue" at Malden Center. The T updated at 7:28 a.m. that...
View ArticleIt's a Green Line folly: Another dead trolley
Around 9 a.m., the MBTA reported Green Line delays of about 15 minutes due to a trolley that decided, no, the show must not go on, near Arlington.facebooktwitteremailprint
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Review: T retch
The cast of T: An MBTA Musical. Photo by Dan Fox.T: An MBTA MusicalThe Rockwell255 Elm St., SomervilleDec. 1, 2023Loving to hate the absurd incompetence of the T is a time-honored Boston tradition as...
View ArticleContractor that misgauged how far apart Green Line Extension rails should be...
Work to "regauge" most of the Green Line Extension that was supposed to be done by Monday instead will take another week to finish, the MBTA announced yesterday. The delay, granted, nowhere as long as...
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