Not everything that goes wrong on the T is the T's fault, it seems. First it was the little duck and today, the T says, it had to shut the Orange Line between Forest Hills and Back Bay after an overhead Amtrak power line unspooled or snapped or something near Ruggles, causing problems for the neighboring subway line. Read more.
It only seems like the copter's gotten tangled in the wires along Rowe Street.
A fed-up citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about that helicopter Amtrak hired to survey the power lines along the Northeast Corridor, which had been slowly moving north, but which is now hovering low over Roslindale again, specifically, Rowe Street: Read more.
Forest Hills awoke today to the sound of a helicopter inching its way up Hyde Park Avenue, and as one 311 reporter complained. "looking into resident back yards." Read more.
WCVB reports that one Amtrak maintenance vehicle collided with another around 4:30 a.m. on Northeast Corridor tracks just north of Readville station, sending five workers to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
LarsK Images had a good view of the Orange Line and the Northeast Corridor - and the Back Bay - at sunset at Forest Hills yesterday.
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
