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B Line struck by lightning

This afternoon the universe found a way to make the B Line more slowly than ever. Initial reports say lightning struck the wires between Packard’s Corner and Harvard Ave; disabling a train in th...

Feds: Your bridge might crumble away MA: Nah, we kinda walked by and looked at it. No probs.

The collapse of the highway bridge in Minneapolis had a wide-ranging impact. After years of ignoring the condition of the Longfellow Bridge, Massachusetts suddenly found itself unable to put off that ...

Beacon Hill afraid of offending red light runners

The Globe published this story on red light cameras which includes this little paragraph on page three: In addition to reducing the fine from $100 to $25, the bill that made it though the Transportati...

Green Line construction updates - more of the same

I posted this at Railroad.net yesterday, and you probably won’t be surprised by any of it. Arlington The Arlington side of the station was due to reopen two and a half months ago. There is littl...

Emerson College no match for the MBTA and the Silver Line

You can renovate and revitalize an entire block of the city, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get any favors thrown your way. In recent years Emerson College has poured millions into relocatin...

Whatever happened to Phase 1 of the Urban Ring?

I was out of town when transit officials released a bunch of information about gearing up for Phase 2 of the Urban Ring. So this is late. Really late. It occurred to me however that Phase 1 is still s...

DHS: Shock bracelets for airline passengers might be a good idea…

This is one of those rare stories that are worthy of a new category on this site. This particular entry brings us the new “Completely Insane” heading. I really hope I don’t have to u...

Convincing riders you care

I’m sure people at the MBTA who read this blog don’t end up liking me very much, and I don’t blame them. That being said, of all the things I’ve written, this is one that IR...

The gamble the MBTA is losing

From The Boston Herald: “Despite ridership increases, the T is getting killed with high fuel costs,” said Eric Bourassa, a member of the T’s Rider Oversight Committee, which agreed this week to send a...

Boston happily destroying infrastructure with infrastructure that will be destroyed by the destroyed infrastructure

As noted earlier, Boston’s contempt for public transit reached new heights this month with the paving-over of the Green Line tracks in Jamaica Plain. Now comes word that the million dollars spe...