About one-quarter (58 of 218) of the Red Line's subway cars are being spruced up after 23 years of service thanks to a $46 million overhaul the MBTA will complete itself, and not using contractors. Work is underway and will continue through April 2012. It's a complete makeover, from propulsion to paint to new seats. MBTA General Manager Richard A. Davey calls it a "marquee project."
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MBTA Transit Police removed 100 high school students from two separate Green Line trains in Allston today after someone reportedly pulled the emergency brakes. Since the specific "prankster" - Globe word - couldn't be identified, they were put off the train. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said "Those responsible were not indentified, but now the students need to find another way to get home."
"We made room," the MBTA is proclaiming in advertising for its brand new seatless car approach to subway travel. Boston's transportation system will take out seats in Red Line train cars, seemingly with the thought process that riders are so content with the cattle car approach to rush-hour commuting that cramming more people into the T each day will make people even happier.
Thomas Paine said, "These are the times that try men's souls". Hamlet said, "To take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them." Dr. Peter Venkman said it a bit pithier, as above. All true. The Red Sox are in St. Petersburg tonight to play the Devil Rays, and if they don't treat the Rays like the second coming of the Big Red Machine, they're going to find themselves in serious hot...
--Several shootings happened last night in Dorchester and Roxbury. An unidentified man was killed and 27-year-old Sabrina Smith was shot in the leg at about 5:15 pm in Dorchester, and about 30 minutes later, 20-year-old Jerome Wells was killed in Roxbury. Police apprehended two suspects in the Wells slaying because an officer was there to witness the incident. The BPD is lucky only one person died – a bystander, Hector Miranda, was almost hit by...
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