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A viral video captures the moments teenagers harassed a woman along the Red Line – hurling racial slurs and even attempting to stop her from getting off the train. “They were trying to corner me and the entire time they’re getting close to me, I can literally feel their breath on me.” Vivian Dang says she’s lived in Boston...

As the MBTA prepares for a 16-day closure of two sections of the Red Line, the transit agency announced on Wednesday a free alternative for riders to use instead. The Fairmount Commuter Rail Line will be free to riders during the closure of the Ashmont Branch and Mattapan Line of the Red Line, the MBTA announced. The closure is from…

Along the Green Line Extension, which extended the trolley line north of Lechmere via two branches to Union Square and Medford, slow zones are making for speeds as slow as 3 miles per hour for more than a cumulative mile, according to the Boston Globe. The reason for the new slow zones — 11 on the Medford branch and three…

A former employee of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority pleaded guilty Monday to more than a dozen charges, including larceny and procurement fraud, state Attorney General Andrea Campbell said. Timothy Dockery, 57, of Plymouth, pleaded guilty to 13 charges that also included bribery, accepting illegal gratuities and conspiracy. Dockery was sentenced to one year in jail, with two years of…

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu sounded the alarm about the MBTA’s woes during a radio interview on Monday, saying what used to be a “stress-free” experience now has people leaving it altogether because of its unreliability. “We are in a very, very dire place, just in terms of service delivery,” Wu said on WBUR’s “Radio Boston.” Asked where her sense...

The Cambridge Fire Department said at 10:22 a.m. that the fire had been extinguished, and that train service would be resuming shortly.

Crews have put out a fire at the Harvard MBTA station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which led to service interruptions along the Red Line on Monday morning. The MBTA reported delays of around 20 minutes at 9:40 a.m. due to smoke reports. The Cambridge Fire Department was on scene to investigate. Trains may stand by at stations, the T said. By…

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced shuttle buses to support travel needs of Fluff Festival attendees in Somerville between two Green Line locations. 3 shuttle buses will operate between East Somerville Station on the Medford Branch of the Green Line and Union Square plaza to accommodate attendees between the hours of 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The shuttle buses will…

Police are looking for a group of youths who smashed a train window and harassed passengers in Boston. The MBTA Transit Police said the incident happened around 11 p.m. Thursday on a Red Line train near JFK/UMass, where several males threatened to rob people and taunted some because of their ethnicity. Authorities say the boys smashed a train window...

The MBTA said that the contractor work pause impacts all work not being done inside of an established diversion area. Work was said to be continuing on the Red Line.

The MBTA has announced that it has temporarily paused nearly all contractor work, as the agency says it works to improve safety for its work crews. This stoppage comes the same day as MBTA leadership announced a personnel shakeup that demoted at least two longtime leaders and reassigned other staff. The 48-hour pause, which started on Wednesday and will continue…

MBTA Transit Police are looking for a person of interest in a sexual assault that happened at the garage of a train station in Braintree. Police are looking to speak with a man in connection with the incident, which happened around 3 a.m. Monday. Authorities did not give any further details about the attack, but released photos of a person…

A Red Line train failed to come to a halt for a crew that was doing track inspections, despite someone flagging the train to stop, according to an MBTA spokesman, who said this week’s incident was preceded by a similar one last week. No one was hurt during the incidents, which are being investigated by the MBTA; the Federal...

MBTA officials added another pair of partial Red Line weekend closures to a long list of maintenance-fueled disruptions planned in October. Shuttle buses will replace Red Line service between Broadway and Ashmont on the Ashmont Branch and between Broadway and North Quincy on the Braintree Branch all day on the weekends of Sept. 30-Oct. 1 and Oct. 7-8, officials announced…

Regular Commuter Rail service is returning in Leominster, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, after crews spent the last week making repairs to the damaged track and washed out ground. Last Monday’s historic flooding in Leominster washed out the ground beneath the track near the city’s station, and commuters who rely on public transportation have had to use bus service while repairs...

Some riders were unprepared for the closed gates at the Union Square T stop Monday. Service is suspended as crews make repairs to the Squires Bridge.

The Green Line Extension’s Union Square line shut down Monday for about a month for bridge repairs.

For the next 25 days, those who rely on the Green Line trains to Union Square will need to find another way to get around.

For the next 25 days, those who rely on the Green Line trains to Union Square will need to find another way to get around. The Green Line’s Union Branch is relatively new, but it’s having to close now in order for crews to repair the Squires Bridge, which runs over the Green Line tracks in Somerville. Originally, the...

With Hurricane Lee getting closer to the Massachusetts coast — the storm’s latest track indicates it will swipe Boston with wind and rain but won’t make landfall there — travel in and out of the area is beginning to be impacted. Flights to New England may be affected, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which was monitoring the situation on…