Stationed at Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue, roving UHub photographer Robert Choate had a perfect location to watch a couple of new Red Line cars get delivered on flatbed trucks with a police escort tonight. Read more.
A man was ordered locked up today when he couldn't make $2,500 bail on charges he sent one Transit Police officer to the hospital with a "serious bite wound" and attacked another when awoken on the floor of a Red Line train at Park Street yesterday morning, according to Transit Police and court records. Read more.
At 8:16 p.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays of up to 30 minutes due to a downed tree on the tracks near Quincy Center. At 8:34 p.m., the T reported bustitution between North Quincy and Quincy Center due to the Kilmerian obstruction. At 9:19 p.m., the T reported it had extended the shuttle service all the way to Braintree. As of 10:15 p.m., the T was reporting the Braintree branch was still blocked by that darned tree.
Boston firefighters responded to South Station around 5:35 p.m. after somebody got on the outbound Red Line tracks at South Station and was hit by an incoming Red Line train. Read more.
Sweltering riders can't get to the Kendall platform because it's already full of other sweltering passengers waiting for the Godot Line. Photo by Johnmcboston.
Yes, of course, on one of the hottest, most humid days of the year, a train would jam up the already partially not running Red Line by dying (of heat exhaustion?) at Downtown Crossing. Read more.
The MBTA says it's throwing open the fare gates at Red Line stations between 3 and 7 p.m. for the commuting disaster this morning caused when a maintenance vehicle derailed on the Alewife-bound tracks at Park Street, not just jamming up the tracks but damaging the third rail. Read more.
They'll be working on the railroad, all the live long day. Photo by Just Some Dude.
And he's off!
If you spot Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni on the T today, say hi, but understand if he doesn't have time to chat: He's on a race to see if he can set a record for the fastest time ever for visiting all T subway stops in one day. Read more.
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.
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