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This Guy Stole a $4,000 Flute From a Woman on the MBTA

MBTA Transit Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man they say made off on foot with a Berklee College of Music student’s […]

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The MBTA May Be Broke, But Crime on Public Transit Is Down

The MBTA’s dilapidated, withering trains may be cause for concern for some riders as doors are reportedly malfunctioning and frequent technical issues are causing delays. […]

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Students Rally At MassDOT for Better MBTA Funding Plan

Groups of Boston students fed up with fare increases and talks of possible cuts to MBTA bus and train service stormed the Massachusetts Department of […]

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MBTA Launches New Sexual Harassment Awareness Campaign

Following a series of reports of indecent exposure on various MBTA trains in March, transportation officials are rolling out a renewed effort in the form […]

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Think You Know a Thing or Two About the MBTA? Prove It.

Millions of people board various MBTA buses and trains each week in order to get around Boston and surrounding cities and towns, but how much […]

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Surprise! MBTA Learns That Everyone Wants Late Night Service

Everyone wants the T to run later. The MBTA surveyed riders to find out whether people were interested in late night service, and if so […]

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Flight or Fight: Why Do People Film Fights on the MBTA Instead of Stopping Them?

The Bystander Effect, where people witness an emergency idly rather than intervene to help a stranger, has been documented for decades. But a modern form […]

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Love in the Time of Rush Hour

Perhaps the least interesting thing about this map showing the most popular places for Craigslist Missed Connections is that in Massachusetts, we find most of […]

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The Best Cold-Weather Fix for the T: Hubway

It sounds a little crazy, but we're basically at the point where you should think twice about taking the T in really cold weather. Today, […]

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The MBTA Should Ditch Escalators

Why does the T bother with escalators? (Photo by Patrick Doyle) As I was making my commute on the Orange Line the other day, I […]

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Photos: 2013 No Pants Subway Ride in Boston

Photo by Brian Walters/BrianWaltersPhoto.com Those of you who rode the T yesterday afternoon might have had the fortune (or misfortune, depending on how you look […]

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Where Do MBTA Cars Go When They Die?

Left: PCC double-end air-electric used on the Mattapan line, retired from service in 1982. Top right: Standard streetcar called the Boston Special that ran between Union […]

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The MBTA Fired the Driver Behind the Green Line Crash

Acting MBTA General Manager Jonathan Davis told reporters Wednesday that the MBTA fired the driver that crashed into a parked train at Boylston Station last […]

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Were Passengers and MBTA Officials Talking About the Same Crash?

Image credit: Jon Mountjoy via Flickr MBTA officials’ descriptions of Thursday’s collision between two Green Line trains did not sound much like first-hand accounts from passengers of […]

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MBTA Lets the Rest of Us In on This Smartphone Ticketing Thing

As expected, the MBTA is making its mobile ticket purchasing app that they say everyone likes available to commuter rail riders south and west of […]