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A man was arrested late Thursday for choking a passenger on the MBTA Blue Line who wouldn’t give up his seat on the train, police said. The 64-year-old was arrested on a charge of strangulation at Aquarium Station about 11 p.m., according to MBTA Transit Police. The man got on a train and demanded that the other rider give...

Shuttle buses are set to replace service along most of the Blue Line for the next few nights, as the MBTA tackles more trackwork. The shuttles will replace the Blue Line between Bowdoin and Orient Heights from 8:45 p.m. until the end of service each day, starting Monday night and continuing through Thursday night. Regularly scheduled service will operate until…

Shuttle buses will replace most of the T stops on the Blue Line beginning Monday night.

T riders are bracing themselves for MBTA service cuts this summer, having to plan ahead for a longer commute. Passengers say they’re dreading the thought of spending more time waiting for the train, especially those who rely on the T to get to work.

On the first day of summer service cuts on the MBTA, Betty Sierra was waiting at Wellington Station, saying she has no choice but to take the Orange and Red lines to get to her job in Quincy. The T says weekday schedules on the Red, Orange and Blue lines will be similar to a weekend schedule, which means longer...

The Blue, Red and Orange lines are expected to have a decrease in service that will last for at least the summer.

Summer cuts to MBTA service will mean fewer trains and longer wait times on the Red, Orange and Blue subway lines. Starting Monday, the MBTA reduced service on those three lines to make up for staffing issues. Now the weekday schedules will resemble a weekend schedule, with longer wait times between trains. These service cuts were announced Friday, just two…

If you take the red, orange or blue lines, your commute may have just gotten longer.

The MBTA has announced extended wait times at stations on the Blue, Orange and Red Line. Trains on the Blue Line are expected to arrive at stations every seven minutes compared to the previous five. The Orange Line will run every 10 minutes in the morning, and 11 minutes in the evening compared to the previous seven minutes. The most…

Due to a shortage in staff, the MBTA has been forced to lengthen the wait times for trains running on the Blue, Orange and Red Line. The longest of the newer wait times extends by five minutes for passengers boarding certain trains on the Red Line. But the time differences are enough for commuters who take the T every day...

The MBTA is making big changes for the summer because of staffing issues. This will impact the Red Line, Orange Line and Blue Line.

Facing subway dispatcher staffing challenges, the MBTA is cutting service on the Red, Orange and Blue lines all summer starting Monday, the embattled agency said Friday. Those three lines will run on a Saturday schedule during the week — except on July 4, when there will be regular weekday service to accommodate crowds heading to and from Independence Day celebrations….

When it comes to climate change, the MBTA is planning for the future. The agency is looking 20 to 30 years down the road. When a big winter storm flooded the Long Wharf area in Boston in 2018, it sent water pouring into the Aquarium station along the Blue Line. Since then, the MBTA installed a system of barriers that…

When it comes to climate change, the MBTA is planning for the future.

After a string of construction derailments extended work on the line’s western end, the MBTA will kick off an 18-day shutdown of Blue Line train service on the line’s easternmost stops on Sunday, officials announced Wednesday. Shuttle buses will replace trains all day between Wonderland and Orient Heights stations from May 22 through Wednesday, June 8. Riders will be able…

Complications from a construction vehicle derailment will prompt the MBTA to keep Blue Line subway service between Maverick and Bowdoin stations suspended until Wednesday, more than a week after after the shutdown was originally expected to end. T officials announced Thursday that they will keep the diversion in place through Tuesday, May 17 and resume running trains beyond their current…

A 14-day shutdown of a segment of the MBTA’s Blue Line, designed to accelerate repairs, will now become a 19-day shutdown, in the process indefinitely postponing a second project eyed for later this week. MBTA officials announced Sunday evening — the day the diversion was scheduled to end — that subway service would remain suspended between the Maverick and Bowdoin…

Blue Line commuters have to rely on the shuttle, the Silver Line or the ferry for the next two weeks as repairs and improvements get underway for the Harbor Tunnel.

Blue Line commuters have to rely on the shuttle, the Silver Line or the ferry for the next two weeks as repairs and improvements get underway for the Harbor Tunnel.

Blue Line commuters have to rely on the shuttle, the Silver Line or the ferry for the next two weeks as repairs and improvements get underway for the Harbor Tunnel. All of the stops between Logan Airport and Bowdoin will be undergoing service changes. The interruptions start April 25 and last until May 8. The impacted T stops include Maverick,…