Excessive smoke makes the Red Line choke
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/excessive-smoke-makes-red-line-choke
#MBTA #CambridgeMA #HarvardSquare
People who vape on underground #MBTA platforms are going to hell with popcorn lung.
@overholt realizing that we can just sort of...walk less than 3 blocks, stumble onto an enclosed train car, and be at, say, the MFA in 45 minutes - without any transfers - continues to be something that I can't comprehend. Whole swaths of the city now absurdly more convenient to access via public transit. #mbta
Update message: “The search has concluded. The shelter in place has been lifted.”
Developing stories from Harvard Crimson: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/21/mbta-harvard-square-shelter-in-place/
and Cambridge Day: https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/04/20/shots-reported-fired-on-harvard-mbta-platform-none-injured/
I just got an alert through the Harvard emergency messaging system: “Transit Police are reporting shots fired at the Harvard Sq MBTA station. CPD, Transit, State, and Harvard Police are searching the Square for the suspect. Shelter in place. Please enter the nearest building and stay there until all clear is given.”
Cc @universalhub
The new South Station Transportation Center is nearing the finish line 
Alterna-future: What if they hadn't torn down the Orange Line el?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/232829120093416/posts/9834221323287433
#Boston #JamaicaPlain #Roxbury #SouthEnd #MBTA
Problems, they've had a few, on both the Red and the Blue
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/problems-theyve-had-few-both-red-and-blue
#MBTA #Boston #Quincy
Fuck this, I’m taking a real transportation mode to work. Orange Line, save me from my sins of individual transport!
(Well, T plus corporate shuttle, but I digress.)
Not sure I should bother commenting on the #MBTA CIP this year: it's clear they can't do anything without more money from Beacon Hill, the lege won't give them that money when the state is set to lose billions in federal funding that they're not willing to make up by raising taxes, and in any case public comments on the CIP are now just "summarized" (to a single bit in staff-predetermined categories) so nobody who matters will ever see the actual comments anyway. Kinda burnt out on the process.
311 complaint of the day: The tire-destroying trolley-track pothole of doom in Cleveland Circle
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/311-complaint-day-tire-destroying-trolley-track-pothole-doom-cleveland
#Brighton #Boston #MBTA
Interior of #HarvardSquare MTA station. Credit: https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/35359
Entrance to #HarvardSquare station, taken in the mid-1950s. Credits here: https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/35395
Are those two uniformed guys police officers or MTA employees?
Orange Line getting up in people's grills due to signal problems at Forest Hills
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/orange-line-getting-peoples-grills-due-signal-problems-forest-hills
#MBTA
