MBTA launches mobile website

Nov. 23, 2011   Leave a Comment  

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has launched a new mobile website for the benefit of users on the go.mobileMBTA.com, powered by Usablenet, provides MBTA riders with easily accessible schedules and service alerts, as well as a customer comment form, an apps page, and trip planning through Google Maps.

Police believe BU grad was drinking before trolley fatally struck him

Oct. 25, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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22-year-old hit by Green Line train Sunday morning

State police investigate near-fatal MBTA bus accident

Dec. 11, 2009   Leave a Comment  

State Police assigned to Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office and MBTA Transit Police are investigating an early-morning crash the critically injured a 54-year-old pedestrian. The accident occurred Friday around 2 a.m. at the intersection of Huntington Avenue and Ring Road in Back Bay shortly. A T bus traveling westbound on Huntington Avenue [...]

New MBTA map released

Sept. 26, 2009   Leave a Comment  

A newly released map of the MBTA system shows the subway, some key bus lines, commuter rail, and a new connection of the Silver Line to South Station. Click here to download the map now so that you’ll never get lost again.

Peace under the busy streets

July 1, 2009   4 Comments  

There is a stigma surrounding him simply because he plays music in the streets. “People can say what they say,” he offers. (Amy Carboneau for Blast)

Blast goes underground and learns the tale of a subway street performer.

MBTA: Subway driver was text messaging, dozens hurt in crash

May 8, 2009   1 Comment  

Transit officials said the operator of an MBTA Green Line Trolley was text messaging someone on his cell phone as his train rear ended another train near Government Center Station Friday evening. Dozens were injured, and 49 people were taken to area hospitals. Commuters, students finishing for the year, tourists and a bevy of fans [...]

Put the drinks down, officer

March 25, 2009   Leave a Comment  

A former Brewster cop faces possible jail time after authorities said he exposed himself to and urinated on a 17-year-old girl and a 21-year-old guy from Connecticut during a Metallica concert at the TD Banknorth Garden. They say he had been drinking. Joseph Houston, 29, faces two counts of assault and battery and a count [...]

Transit police nab groper

March 13, 2009   Leave a Comment  

An Everett man was banned from MBTA property after he was arraigned Wednesday on charges he groped a woman on the Orange Line, authorities said. Jose Velasquez, 67, was charged with indecent assault and battery. “We will continue to seek high bails and strong punishments for these offenses until everyone gets the message,” said Suffolk [...]

Two killed on tracks in Mass. within hours

Feb. 27, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Within a span of eight hours, two people died on train tracks in Massachusetts in separate incidents. In the first incident, a man stepped in front of an outbound Red Line subway train at Dorchester’s Savin Hill Station around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. At 7 a.m. Friday, an elderly man was struck down by a Commuter [...]

Woman, 82, killed in subway escalator accident

Feb. 25, 2009   Leave a Comment  

An 82-year-old Dorchester woman was killed Tuesday morning when she fell riding an escalator upward at the State Street MBTA station, police said. Helen Jackson was leaving the station at about 10 a.m. when she fell and her clothing got caught at the top of the escalator, officials said. According to officials, people at the [...]

Accused “Blue Line Groper” ordered off the T

Jan. 21, 2009   Leave a Comment  

A Beverly, Mass. man who’s accused of groping a woman who turned out to be an undercover transit police officer has been ordered to stay away from the MBTA transit lines. Jeffrey D. Nichols, 51, was released on a bail warning Tuesday after his arraignment in Boston Municipal Court on indecent assault and battery charges. [...]