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Boston Globe – By Eric Moskowitz – October 10, 2010 There were more pigeons than people circling South Station when John Perez rolled in one morning, a few minutes early for his 5:45 a.m. shift. Over 26 years, Perez has logged more than 6,000 workdays as an MBTA bus driver, token collector, and Red Line…
Read MoreBrother Bailey Saves Life
A quick-thinking 36-year-veteran Green Line instructor, John Bailey, plucked a badly injured passenger from a burning taxi just moments before the mangled cab burst into a fireball after flying airborne into a tree along the Mystic Valley Parkway in Arlington yesterday. Here’s brother Bailey’s account from an interview with NECN:
Read MoreMan ordered to stay away from T driver
By Travis Andersen – Boston Globe Staff A Somerville man has been ordered to stay away from an MBTA bus driver he allegedly assaulted because of her race in July, under a civil rights injunction obtained by the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley, her office announced today.
Read MoreT: Teen Passenger Spits On Trolley Driver
BOSTON — A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trolley operator was assaulted Wednesday night when she was spit on by a passenger. The incident happened just after 6 p.m. Wednesday near Blanford Street on an inbound Green Line B Line trolley, the MBTA said.
Read MoreT bus drivers find patience tested
By Eric Moskowitz Globe Staff / February 3, 2011 Driving the MBTA’s Route 11 bus yesterday between City Point and Downtown Crossing, Carolyn Gillis had to slow or stop for the following amid the snow-narrowed streets of South Boston: a home heating-oil truck parked the wrong way, obstructing the road; a Honda CR-V camped in…
Read MoreRepublican Transportation Cuts Are Job Killers
This is cross-post from the National Journal’s Transportation blog by AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD) President Edward C. Wytkind. It is ironic that the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC’s) proposal to slash vital transportation investments was unveiled on the very day that we learned that Americans spend as many as 70 hours—or nearly three solid days—a…
Read MoreRandom act of hospitali-T
By Richard Weir / Boston Herald T workers often get a bad rap for all sorts of sins. But for every rude remark or apathetic response some might utter, there are countless acts of unexpected kindness carried out by the men and women of the MBTA each day. People such as T bus driver Ricardo Miranda.
Read MorePay Raise For MBTA Managers
Wednesday, 10 Aug 2011, 9:44 PM EDT Maria Al Tayar BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – The MBTA Board of Directors approved a 1.5 percent salary increase for July 1, 2011 and another 1.5 percent raise on January 1, 2012 for non-union employees as part of its fiscal 2012 budget, according to State House news…
Read More2 arrested after MBTA bus driver allegedly assaulted
(Courtesy of Channel 7 – WHDH) NEWTON, Mass. — Two suspects were arrested in Newton after police say they talked their way into a free MBTA bus ride to court, and then beat up the driver who helped them. 7News cameras rolled as police cuffed 24-year-old Kelly Galvin and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Jesse Cedrone.
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