Back Bay Station

A fight over an MBTA rider taking up more than one seat sent someone to the hospital from Boston’s Back Bay Station with slash wounds Tuesday, transit police said. As the Orange Line train approached the station, two people began to argue over the seat, and their argument turned physical, police said. One of the two took out a...

A man suspected of assaulting three women over two hours at and near the MBTA’s Back Bay Station Saturday afternoon has been arrested, Boston police said Wednesday.

Beginning Saturday, Commuter Rail passengers will need to use new electronic fare gates to enter and exit North Station’s concourse, part of an effort by the MBTA to overhaul how it collects fares from riders. The new gates that will begin operation Saturday at North Station’s concourse, and will work similarly to fare gates on the MBTA’s subway lines...

MBTA transit police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man who is wanted in connection with an attempted knife assault on an Orange Line train last month. Transit police released two photos Friday of the person of interest in the incident at the MBTA’s Back Bay station in Boston, and are hoping someone will recognize the man....

There was no update on the victim’s condition.

A Massachusetts man allegedly stabbed another man Sunday morning who refused to flush a toilet at an MBTA station in Boston. Transit police say officers were called to the Back Bay station around 8 a.m. Sunday for a report of an assault. Responding officers say the victim, identified only as a 33-year-old Boston man, was stabbed in the hand. He…

Two families are now suing the MBTA and Kone, the company hired to maintain the escalators.

Disturbing new video released by the MBTA shows people tumbling backwards, and piling up on top of one another, after an escalator malfunction at the Back Bay Station in September. Many of the people were headed back to Boston from Foxboro, Massachusetts, after a Patriots game that Sunday, Sept. 26, when the escalator suddenly reversed at a high rate of…

A family from Louisiana injured when an escalator at a Boston train station malfunctioned has sued the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and a contractor. Karson and Holly Bethay and their two children, of Metairie, Louisiana, suffered “multiple fractures of the upper and lower extremities; extensive facial, scalp, head and body lacerations and other injuries,” when the escalator from the platform…

The MBTA is investigating an escalator malfunction at the Back Bay Station in Boston Sunday night that injured several people.