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| Weather 🌤️ 79° / 62° Partly sunny, high near 79, north wind around 9 mph, and a rain chance that never climbs past 6 percent. Mostly cloudy overnight with a low around 62 · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Blue Line shuttles between Airport and Government Center as of 5:50am — a disabled train near Maverick; the T estimates normal service back by about 7:45, and the SL3 runs Airport to South Station meanwhile. Green is off normal too: Brandon Hall bypassed on the C, Symphony closed on the E. Red and Orange are normal · live status → | Roads MassDOT’s planned board is busy in daylight today, and the cluster is north and west of the city. Route 28 through Somerville has intermittent lane closures both ways between Route 3 and I-93 from 9am to 3pm; I-93 northbound loses lanes from Somerville up to Woburn, 9am to 2pm, and southbound from Stoneham back down, 10am to 2pm. Route 1A southbound in Revere runs 8am to 3pm. Overnight work returns on I-95 through Waltham and on US 1 and Route 16 around Revere. |
| The number: 8 — Orange Line stations named in the MBTA’s shuttle notice for Sept 10 to 14, counted off the alert’s own station list: Back Bay, Massachusetts Ave, Ruggles, Roxbury Crossing, Jackson Square, Stony Brook, Green Street and Forest Hills. Buses replace trains across that stretch for five straight weekdays. Day 251 of 2026. the live T board → | ⚾️ Red Sox 5, Angels 2 on Monday — a fifth straight win, and the homestand opener went to Brayan Bello, who threw five scoreless in his first start since early June. That follows the four-game sweep in Baltimore. Tonight: Angels at Fenway, 6:45 · full scoreboard → | 🚇 Transit Tuesday Two clean days, then the Orange Line goes to buses Today and Wednesday look like last Tuesday: three of four lines normal, one accessibility closure on the Green, one Silver Line detour after 6pm. Then Thursday morning the Orange Line south of Back Bay becomes a bus, and stays one through Monday. If you ride Ruggles, Jackson Square or Forest Hills, this is the week to sort out a plan. The two-second board · for today | Red | Normal | | Orange | Normal | | Green | Stop closed Brandon Hall bypassed on the C branch through Oct 4, with Fairbanks St and Summit Ave a four-minute walk either side; Symphony closed on the E for accessibility work, and the T expects it back in 2029. | | Blue | Shuttle buses Buses replacing trains between Airport and Government Center after a disabled train near Maverick, reported 5:46am; the T’s estimate is normal service by about 7:45. The SL3 covers Airport to South Station in the meantime. | | Silver | Stop closed SL2 skips Northern Ave at Tide St on weekday evenings from 6pm to end of service; use Harbor St or 23 Drydock Ave outbound. | | Commuter Rail | Normal |
This week on the T Thursday through Monday, Sept 10 to 14: shuttle buses replace Orange Line trains between Back Bay and Forest Hills, for work on the Ruggles station improvement project. Five consecutive days, four of them weekdays — this is not the usual weekend shutdown, and it covers the whole southern half of the line. The T’s notice names eight stations across the stretch. Saturday, Sept 12: the SL2 is detoured from 9:30 to 11:30am for a road race and terminates at Silver Line Way. And the weekend after that is the big one. Sept 19 and 20 now has four separate closures stacked on the same two days: Red Line shuttles between JFK/UMass and Ashmont for bridge work; no Green Line trains between North Station and Babcock St on the B, Kenmore on the C and D, or Heath St on the E, with the Orange Line as the North Station-to-Back Bay workaround; and Kingston, Greenbush and Fall River/New Bedford commuter rail trains all terminating at Braintree for a Red Line connection. The Needham Line goes further — every train terminates at Forest Hills on Friday Sept 18, and the line is suspended entirely from 11pm that night through Sunday for West Roxbury bridge work. The Worcester Line runs a reduced construction schedule that Friday too. Then Sept 26 and 27, Blue Line trains share one track between Wonderland and Revere Beach for switch work. Where the trains will sleep: the T told a public hearing on Sept 3 that it is ready to start building the first phase of a rail yard at Widett Circle, the 24-acre former food distribution site next to I-93 in South Boston that it bought for $255 million in early 2023. Phase one demolishes the old warehouses, moves utilities and raises the ground — it was South Bay once — and the yard is meant to hold the electric trains the agency wants to buy to run more commuter rail. Construction is due to begin early next year. Streetsblog Mass. reported the hearing. Read more → One week ago, quietly: the subway turned 129. Streetsblog marked the anniversary on Sept 1 — on that date in 1897, at around six in the morning, trolley 1752 dropped into a hole in the Public Garden and became the first subway car in America. The Park Street-bound streetcar had begun its run in Allston and was built to seat a few dozen; contemporary reports put more than a hundred people aboard by the time it went under. The Boston Daily Globe described the crowd outside as “a canal of humanity.” Read more → If you drive: today is unusually busy in daylight. Of the 32 work zones opening on MassDOT’s Boston-area planned board, 20 start in daytime hours — the ones most likely to touch a commute are Route 28 in Somerville and both directions of I-93 between Somerville and Stoneham, all of them running through the middle of the day. | The Boston Public Library’s own free tour of the McKim building at the Central Library in Copley Square — the older half, the one most people walk past on the way in. Green Line to Copley, Orange to Back Bay. | The Run For Your Lives tour lands at the Garden. North Station is the stop, it is on both the Green and Orange lines, and neither one is touched by this week’s work. | The market’s free outdoor series on the lawn at 401 Park, with the food hall behind you if the evening turns. Green Line D to Fenway — and Thursday is the first day of the Orange Line shuttles, so come in from the west if you can. | One of the strangest and best stand-ups working, in the small Tremont Street theatre where Boston sends its comedians. Boylston or Tufts Medical Center, both a short walk. |
| Transit Boston-to-Miami flights were cancelled after Sunday’s deadly Amazon Prime Air crash, and WHDH found passengers who had spent the night in the terminal at Logan — one traveller described being ten minutes from boarding, then delayed three hours, then cancelled, with nothing left to rebook onto. Another couple gave up and flew to Orlando instead. Former Massport chief executive Tom Kinton told the station the investigation is only beginning and will look at whether the reverse thrusters worked and at the thunderstorms near the airport at the time. If you are flying south this week, check before you leave the house. Per WHDH. Read more → | Public Safety Boston police responded to a report of a shooting near 1991 Columbus Ave at about 8pm Sunday and found two victims, both taken to nearby hospitals. No arrests have been made. Police are still investigating and the department has released little beyond that; treat everything else you read about it today as unconfirmed. Per WHDH. Read more → | Local Both planes that hit the World Trade Center left Logan, and the anniversary lands here differently because of it. GBH spoke to Muslims across the state ahead of Friday and found many who say they still feel a need to defend their religion and their patriotism a quarter-century later; the piece opens at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury, where more than a thousand people gathered recently for Friday prayer. Per GBH News. Read more → | Boston Restaurant Talk reported on Friday, Sept 4, citing What Now Boston, that Tori Japan plans to open by Boston University, in Malden and in Taunton, on top of the Dorchester location already announced for the Ashmont area. The BU one looks likely to come first — it takes over the former Boston Halal space on Commonwealth Avenue and could open later this month — with Malden and Taunton later this year and Dorchester in 2027. Four openings from one small group is an unusually fast expansion for a restaurant market this tight. Read more → |
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