Bicycle UNfriendly
Green Line at Chestnut Hill station I recently bought a bicycle. I decided on Sunday to ride it from Providence to Boston. Awesome. After a series of misadventures preparing for the ride — including...
View ArticleElevator & Escalator Project
Former location of Unit 323, Ashmont Station (demolished in 2006) At the end of 2007, the MBTA operated 167 escalators in 50 transit stations. The MBTA believed that it operated one additional unit in...
View ArticleT: Know thy riders
MBTA: Where are you going today? I boarded a Green Line “D” train a few months ago at Longwood station. The station was in the midst of yet another renovation, and there were several workers around....
View ArticleEmergency Stop
In Emergency to Stop Car and Open Doors Pull Lever Down and Push Doors Apart Ever seen the red levers on the Green Line trains? Ever wonder what happens when you pull the lever? The train stops,...
View ArticleWhose train is that anyway?
Unless you were in seclusion the last few months, you probably heard that all the creative finance from Wall Street went to dust last fall. What does that have to do with public transit? Very little...
View ArticleUnderstaffed Lot Creates Red Sox Transitjam
Stuck in Newton on the way to the ballpark In a minature version of the Easter 2009 turnpike toll fiasco, insufficient staffing at the Riverside Green line terminal in Newton at noon on Sunday jammed...
View ArticleNTSB: Green Line Drivers Don’t Report Signal Failures
The NTSB released its analysis of the May, 2008 Green Line collision in Newton. Such is the sorry state of affairs at the MBTA that the mishap must be identified by both date and location so as not to...
View ArticleGreen Line Is a Railroad and Other Urban Myths
The Suffolk District attorney charged former Green Line conductor Aiden Quinn of gross negligence in the control of “a railroad train,” according to published reports. Quinn was at the controls on May...
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