r/mbta

Yesterday while riding the Red line I had a man approach me. He seemed unwell (maybe drugs/alcohol, mental health problems), and I acknowledged him simply. He then pulled me into a conversation that was unintelligible and started video taping me and touching me. He heavily implied that he would follow me home or take me home with him. Luckily I was able to lose him at my connection to the Orange line

So this leads me to ask - how do you all avoid situations like this? Or how do you respond when it does?

My survival instinct was to try and be nice and de-escalate the whole time by maintaining a calm demeanor, but I think my engagement only made it worse. The whole experience was pretty scary, and I want to feel more prepared if this happens again

While sitting down for an extended wait for the Needham Line to Ruggles, because I want to squeeze my weekend pass and not have to walk around elsewhere longer than necessary before walking around the MFA, two strange occurrences happened:

1. A rat scurried by under the bench I was sitting at. It startled both me and a pigeon.

2. The elevator to the Tracks 1 & 3 platform opened and closed on its own. The rational explaination is that someone changed their mind upstairs, but if that’s the case, why would the doors open downstairs in the first place? Does Back Bay Station have a ghost and rats?

Update: As I wrote this, it opened again, and I saw a Transit Ambassador who didn’t get out. Maybe one was in there last time and I just didn’t see them. Either way, I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.

The City of Boston intends to launch a new, private bus service to connect neighborhoods in Mattapan and Roxbury with a free “last mile” shuttle service that would help commuters connect more easily to commercial districts and transit hubs.

The five new LINK lines, paid for with $11.5 million in federal funds, would be deployed by 2027. Two of the lines would be in Mattapan and Roxbury and would likely connect neighborhoods to Blue Hill Avenue and Mattapan Square station – though the routes have not yet been finalized.

The goal of LINK service is to complement the MBTA by closing targeted transportation gaps, improving connections to transit stations, and serving destinations that can be difficult to reach through the existing network.

Yesterday on a crowded orange line train coming into downtown crossing, I was standing in front of the doors waiting to get off and three youths aggressively pushed into me and their way into the crowded train before letting people off. If anyone was at downtown crossing and saw this around 330/4 pm and has video or can make a statement, please dm me.

Just sitting on the platform at Tufts Medical Center, and on the as screens between the tracks are shuffling through their adverts. And I look up to see a picture of a wolf with the caption “You wouldn’t invite a wolf to guard your sheep. Don’t use AI unprotected, stay sovereign. Palantir”

I mean, really? I thought we were basically all in agreement that Palantir was fully evil. I’d rather trust Bye Bye Birdie’s Telephone Hour to protect my data than Palantir. Who exactly is in charge of this and how do we get them to pull this?

My partner was at Park St today and there was a naked guy running up and down the platform on the Cambridge side.
A train pulled up, but he didn’t get on it.
My partner pointed him out to the driver.
When he got off at Wollaston there was an announcement of a delay of 15 minutes northbound because of at Park Street.
Just another day on the Red Line.

Shoutout to the conductor who announced Track 4 to transfer to the train to Forge Park! I hope this is a sign of change, where it’ll be announced every single time, because it should be standard if all Forge Park trains go “via Fairmount” on weekends.