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
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 [...]
Peace under the busy streets
July 1, 2009 4 Comments
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 [...]
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. [...]