C Line

This is certainly no treat: Dead trolley on Beacon Street

By adamg - 7/17/21 - 10:54 pm

The MBTA is reporting delays of up to 20 minutes on the C Line due to a dead trolley at Coolidge Corner.

Making the Green Line more accessible: MBTA looks at complete reconfiguration of the E Line and a new type of station for the B Line

By adamg - 6/20/21 - 11:17 pm

New look of Huntington Avenue with new transit and bike ways in one MBTA rendering

Possible next-gen Huntington Avenue, with transit/bike lanes on either side.

MBTA planners tomorrow will discuss potential new designs for the Green Line along between Brigham Circle and Heath Street and along Commonwealth Avenue with the goal to make the two branches more easily accessible to people with mobility issues. Read more.

It's rarely a good sign when guys clamber atop the Green Line

By adamg - 4/20/21 - 11:15 am

Workers atop a Green Line trolley on Beacon Street

Chris in 02134 spotted some overhead-wire action on the Green Line on Beacon Street shortly before 11 a.m., about 45 minutes after the T reported "power problems" on the Beacon Street line were forcing it into bustitution between Coolidge Corner and Cleveland Circle.

Some trolleys are late in broken-door spate

By adamg - 2/5/20 - 12:31 pm

The MBTA is reporting delays of up to 20 minutes on the C Line inbound because of a trolley with a door problem.

Another Green Line folly: Riders evacuated from trolley

By adamg - 1/22/20 - 8:53 am

The MBTA is blaming a "power problem" at Park Street for delays on the Green Line. Shortly before 8 a.m., Jed reported:

Just hit a big bump then saw sparks on the Green Line C Train. Track 2 disabled train.

At 8:25, he shows us how passengers got from the trolley to the station: Read more.

C Line is at a standstill; one trolley might need a ride to the landfill

By adamg - 7/2/19 - 9:40 am

The MBTA reports delays of up to 15 minutes on the C Line due to "a disabled train with a mechanical problem" at Dean Road.

MBTA says C and D service on the Green Line should resume on Sunday

By adamg - 6/8/19 - 11:00 pm

The T, which plans to run shuttle buses between Kenmore and Cleveland Circle on the C Line and Kenmore and Fenway on the Riverside line for the rest of the night following this morning's derailment, says it plans to resume regular service on the two Green Line branches first thing Sunday morning.

In pre-Marathon race, runners beat Green Line

By adamg - 4/15/19 - 8:52 am

But are you surprised? The Green Line riders lost whatever chance they might have had when, naturally, their train was taken out of service at Kenmore.

At the end of the C Line, things were far from fine

By adamg - 3/29/19 - 8:30 pm

Danielle Jones shows us some of the carnage in Cleveland Circle where a trolley and several cars had a rather sharp disagreement over who should go where shortly before 8 p.m. Read more.

C Line service gets whacked in the knee by a driver in an SUV

By adamg - 1/3/19 - 7:30 pm

Henry Wong shows us the SUV whose driver somehow managed to get the vehicle's wheels ensnared on the inbound tracks of the C Line near Englewood Avenue sometime after 6:30 p.m. The T reports it had to stop trains at Coolidge Corner and bring in some buses to get riders between there and Cleveland Circle.

C Line is at a halt; cab on tracks at fault

By adamg - 6/19/18 - 8:59 am

There's probably a good reason a Bay State Taxi cab wound up on the Green Line tracks on Beacon Street near Coolidge Corner, as Jason Kashdan shows us. Whatever the reason, the line is now dead.

No Beacon of hope; a C trolley decided to mope

By adamg - 5/15/18 - 8:06 am

The MBTA reports delays on the Green Line outbound along Beacon Street due to a trolley that gave up the ghost.

Things are not fine at end of C Line

By adamg - 3/9/18 - 4:04 pm

Green Line workers are currently trying to haul away a dead trolley at Cleveland Circle. Their counterparts on the Red Line are doing the same thing with a dead train at Porter Square. Delays abound.

The Green Line problem of the hour once more is something with power

By adamg - 1/22/18 - 9:28 am

UPDATE, 3:30 p.m. The power problems persist and are now affecting the Riverside line, too.

The MBTA reports "minor" delays on the C Line due to yet another unspecified power problem. Robinec helps define "minor":

I've been on the C line for more than 30 minutes now and we’re still not even underground.

Green Line power off once more; getting somewhere again a chore

By adamg - 1/18/18 - 10:51 am

It's down! It's up! It's down again! The MBTA reports it is rounding up buses to shuttle C Line riders between Kenmore and Cleveland Circle and D Line riders between Kenmore and Fenway because of the same sort of power issues that plagued the line earlier this morning.

Lechmere-bound riders wish they were on vacation - there's a dead trolley sitting at North Station

By adamg - 12/30/17 - 12:56 pm

A deceased trolley at North Station is causing "minor" delays for the ride to Lechmere, the MBTA reports.

C Line not so fleet; dead train at Washington Street

By adamg - 12/13/17 - 9:31 am

"Moderate" delays due to the froze-up trolley at Washington Street, the MBTA says.

State gives green light to project to give trolleys, some buses more green lights

By adamg - 10/23/17 - 4:02 pm

MassDOT announced today that it's installing specialized traffic signal systems along Beacon Street in Brookline, and Comm. Ave. and Huntington Ave. in Boston that will switch to green lights for approaching trolleys. Mass. Ave. in Cambridge will get similar treatment for buses. Read more.

Man charged as Green Line masturbator

By adamg - 5/26/17 - 3:43 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Canton man for "conducting himself in a lewd manner" on a C Line trolley as it approached Coolidge Corner around 9:30 p.m. yesterday.

Robert Widberg, 53, already a Level 2 registered sex offender, was formally charged with open and gross lewdness.

Innocent, etc.

Out-of-service Green Line trolley slips off tracks at Cleveland Circle

By adamg - 5/10/17 - 8:17 am

NBC Boston reports a trolley derailed at the Cleveland Circle yard and Beacon Street around 7:20 a.m. No injuries, no effect on service.

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