Since it was cold and rainy this morning (yay, April in New England!), I took the T into work. It's a pretty fun trip since we moved to our new office; Aquarium Station has an entrance inside our building, but the Blue Line is the least convenient line to access from the Red Line. I have to go two stops on Red, change to Orange, go one stop, change ( Read more... )

So I found this this morning on Boston.com:
Train hits, injures man at T station. An unidentified man was struck by a northbound train about 8 p.m. last night while waiting in the Harvard T station, MBTA officials said. The man, who was conscious afterward, was taken to a local hospital with a head injury that did not appear to be life-threatening ( Read more... )

So, around 8:20pm, I went to Porter and waited for a southbound train into Boston ( Read more... )

Today I got off the T at Harvard Square, and as usual exited via the Church Street exit. As I passed through the turnstile, I saw an older woman with a German/Slavic accent arguing with a T employee. It didn't take much to get the gist of the dispute; she'd used a CharlieTicket to get in, then realised she'd forgotten something and went out to get ( Read more... )

So this morning, I got on the T at Harvard. There was one seat available on the side of the car I am on. The problem with it is was it was in a bank of three seats, and there were two women already sitting in them who needed 1? seat each. However, I am getting off at South Station, a good seven stops from here, and dammit, I'm over 40 and I don't ( Read more... )

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People who ride the T at rush hour? Are stupid. There. I've said it. They are profoundly, deeply, mentally crippled. How they manage to remember to breathe astounds me ( Read more... )

Charles MGH T Station, is the only above-ground station north of Andrew on the Red Line; it crosses the Charles River into Cambridge on the Longfellow (aka Salt-and-Pepper) Bridge. It's also pretty old and unpleasant in winter. And it's undergoing a major renovationAlthough I pass through Charles nearly every day, most of the work isn't visible ( Read more... )