Officials with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) report that there were close to 4,000 citations issued so far this year to people who evaded paying their fare. This is up close to 60 percent from this same time last year, when only 2,270 citations were issued, according to the…
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) recently celebrated its 115th anniversary. It continues to be the country’s oldest subway system and officials with the Authority are not only proud of the early beginning of the system, they’re also proud of their continued efforts to advance it, modernize it and make…
More and more people are using the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) services to get to where they’ve got to be. According to a recent release, there were more than 400 million individual riders on the MBTA during the last fiscal year. This was the first time ridership has ever…
According to local police officers, a man was seriously injured as he attempted to get off of a moving train at the Nantasket Junction Depot. Officers say that they located the victim reclining on a bench at the station shortly after the accident happened. Emergency response crews arrived on scene…
Right now, there is a crew of carpenters, sheet-metal workers, repairers and others who have been working day-in and day-out trying to repair and maintain some of the T’s oldest cars, the ones on the Orange Line. There’s even one car, subway car 31, that is more than 60-years-old and…
As our Boston Personal Injury Lawyers recently reported, ridership on the T has increased in recent months. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) officials are crediting the new See Say smartphone app for the increase. It’s helping riders to navigate their trips a whole lot easier, allowing them to see exactly…
Throughout the month of April, ridership totalled nearly 1.5 million per weekday. That’s the third month in a row in which the ridership has been more than 1.3 million and the 15th month in a row in which we saw increased ridership, according to the Boston Globe. As the number…
You could call employees with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) lifesavers. Well, maybe more like bunny savers. According to CBS Boston, workers stepped in just in time to save a little girl’s best friend who had accidentally fallen onto the tracks. It all happened when Casey and Michelle Carey-Brown’s…
Listen up commuters! For those of you planning on using the MBTA’s services on Memorial Day, you may have to make other plans if you’re trip involves one of the services that will be shut down for the day. The
The MBTA recently launched theFront Door Only Policy, to try to get more riders to hand over their fares. The policy started on April 17th 2012. Recently, too many riders have been skipping out on their dues and taking the rides for free. Under the new policy, riders using the…