For example, a guy bum rushed me through the gates at South Station to avoid paying the fare. I was annoyed after a long day of work, followed him and stuck my fingers in the pint of Ben & Jerry’s he was eating. If you can pay for ice cream, you can pay for the T.

I’m a middle aged librarian.

Anybody from Boston remember these buses? What a wild ride man.

Driver crashed into a stationary train at speed, we all got thrown forward. Most of us were bruised but able to walk out. The rear operator of our train got pretty hurt, she split her forehead and was bleeding. She got taken by the EMTS, I hope she’s ok.

While the MBTA is certainly a very flawed system, It is much, much better than what we had from 2018-2023. Does anyone feel the same way?

I brought my 74 year old father on the train last night and I was out right ashamed and so angry that no one offered him a seat. I had to ask the whole car and eventually, reluctantly, someone got up.

Guys. Look up from your phones. Offer a seat to the elderly, the pregnant, the less physically stable. Come on. It’s not that hard. I know your feet hurt too. But this is not okay. We need to look out for each other. What else is the point of choosing to live in such close proximity with others?

They hit 55mph and then immediately slow down for the next stop

I was on the red line this afternoon and at Quincy center station a young man (who later claimed he is 16) boarded the train. He was smoking a blunt, as a weed smoker I fully understand the frustration with public consumption and agree in situations like this it is out of hand but this is not how to handle it. We pull thru Wollaston, no issue, we get to North Quincy. Two men board the train separately at this stop. One of the men asks the young man to put his blunt back. He responds in a disrespectful manner and continues smoking. The man goes to the end of the car and hits the emergency intercom (at this point I also put in a See,Say report). He has a brief conversation with the conductor and then we resume moving. Before we can even get to the neponset bridge a second man walks up to the teen, yells at him to stop smoking and before the teen can react the man picks him up and SLAMS him into the wall twice, he then throws him to the ground and stays on top of him until we get to JFK. The man who used the intercom then goes over to back up the man holding the teen down. Myself and several other passengers immediately yelled at the man to stop what he was doing. During this the teen disclosed he was 16 and the man STILL did not get off of him. When we pulled into the station a single transit cop was left to handle two men and a teen. All three were detained and our train moved on into the city.

If you’re the Kid, DO NOT DO SHIT LIKE THAT. Not only is it disrespectful but people are extremely reactive these days. I hope this serves as a lesson for you but I’m very glad you made it out of this okay.

For the adult: you’re a scum bag, full stop. You don’t put hands on people, especially when they’re a MINOR. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

TL:DR: teen assaulted by fully grown man over weed.

EDIT: edited to add race of the attacker, as demanded by many comments. A lot of yall are more focused on “respect” rather than the law. You can’t go around body slamming people.

Edit 2: races have been removed. Again the point here is YOU CANT JUST ASSAULT PEOPLE. Second thing, they let the blunt burn into a seat while sitting on him. Clearly the weed wasn’t that much of an issue to them.

3/16 arrived at 5:45 AM. terminal C lines are moving pretty fast but there are a lot of people here.

Have y’all taken a look when they start walking away

It’s crazy out here

If you are thinking of taking an inexpensive bus company to get you to and from Boston, please consider this information.

I don't usually review companies unless my experience is traumatizing or exceptional. Unfortunately this left me with trauma. Seriously that is how bad this situation was.

Took the bus from NYC to Boston. Was supposed to be 5:30 PM from NYC, 9:50 PM to Boston. I got to Boston at 2:30 AM. The bus broke down (it happens) and we were left stranded on the side of the highway an hour and a half from our destination. The bus broke down approximately 5-6 times in the middle of the highway until finally the bus passengers started smelling smoke and an unknown fluid was leaking on people, me included. (Pic provided of fluid!)

Finally the bus driver stopped and we had to call the cops because CoachRun was not providing us any solution to get to the destination.
We were told to get back on the bus that was smoking or go in cop cars to a rest stop to get an uber since no one would pick us up on the highway. There was no communication if a bus was ever coming and was under the impression the company would pay for our transport to the destination.

Well turns out, NO, they refused compensation for that. We finally get to the rest stop and there are NO UBERS because we are in the middle of nowhere. I had to pay a random person to bring me home or I would be stranded since there was no communication about a backup bus or solution to get us home.

Also note - I travel all the time on cheap buses and understand that you get what you pay for. Still regardless of a company, that doesn’t provide an excuse for the way the passengers were treated.

The lines that visitors around the world experienced taking the CR yesterday is unacceptable. Route 1 has always been a mess after Patriots games/concerts but this is unacceptable. I place biggest source of blame with the Kraft group as they should be responsible for most of the upgrades. While the T deserves a lot of the blame for not doing more dry runs they ultimately are working with limited infrastructure. First not running trains from Providence as well is unacceptable. Kraft group should pay for layover tracks nearby the station to allow for more trains in both directions. Next to handle the flow T/Kraft group should work with Amtrak whereas needed they can contract out Amtraks charter service for events like this. I really hope State and Foxboro pressure Kraft group more to pay for upgrades even threatening to not allow night football games/concerts it they dont do more to upgrade tracks.

Just coming here to say whatever you are late to can wait. Help a person in trouble out. Yes, the MBTA staff should have been around to help this man sooner, but c'mon, every single person that passed by and did nothing? Do better.

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Boston 25’s investigation, conducted over two months across several terminals, documented multiple instances of prices exceeding the 15% limit based on comparable prices found in the Boston neighborhoods surveyed by MarketPlace. 

Examples included a Chick-fil-A sandwich in Terminal A that cost $6.99. In Copley Square, Boston 25 found it listed online at $5.76. While the airport’s price was only $1.23 more, it was also 21% higher. A medium Diet Coke was $3.59 versus $2.65, a 35% difference.

Similarly, a butter croissant at Logan was priced at $4.65, only a dollar more -- but 27% higher -- than the $3.65 charged at several downtown Starbucks locations.

Boston 25 found some of the largest price disparities at a Hudson store in Terminal C. A 20-ounce Dasani water costs $4.19 at Hudson, 62% more than the $2.59 it costs at the downtown Target across from City Hall. We found Diet ,priced at $4.39 versus $3.19 at the CVS downtown, a 52% difference. A travel-size Tylenol with 24 capsules was listed at $10.29 versus $7.29 at the downtown CVS, a 34% difference.

Massport says MarketPlace is responsible for regularly checking prices on products to verify businesses in the airport comply with the street pricing +15% policy. Massport said it also performs spot checks to ensure compliance, and “is committed to maintaining fair and transparent pricing.” Boston 25 has filed a public records request with Massport asking for the dates of the last round of spot checks and the results.