Category: Above & Beyond

T praised for response to Women’s March

Commonwealth Magazine | By Bruce Mohl | Jan. 24 TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY STEPHANIE POLLACK and members of the MBTA’s oversight board on Monday praised the authority and the state’s commuter rail operator for their response to the huge crowds that took public transit to the Women’s March on Saturday. Pollack said early estimates of how many people …

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Man jumps on Red Line tracks, demands T workers let him die, but they refuse

People wait to board a Red Line train at Porter Square MBTA station in February. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Gin Dumcius witnessed T workers struggling to keep a guy from trying to kill himself at Park Street around 7:45 p.m. Ten workers eventually joined the successful effort to keep him off the tracks until he could be transported to the hospital. Hats off to our members who were involved in helping this poor man.

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Sullivan: Put T trolley on track for tourism

Boston Herald | Jim Sullivan | Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Tim Murphy loves his job. Tim drives the Mattapan-
Ashmont trolley, the extension of the Red Line that takes over where the subway ends. The trolleys are the only vehicles in the MBTA fleet not equipped to make recorded announcements, so Tim does the job as …

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