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Boston Would Like You to Not Use Elevators as Urinals

Boston Transit
Agency Really Wants
You to Hold It In
on the Elevator

Jun 13, 2022 11:14 AM CDT

Boston Transit Agency Really Wants You to Hold It In on the Elevator

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority pilot program will use urine sensors

(Newser) - Urine trouble no more, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority hopes, with a new program to tackle public urination in system elevators with technology. The MBTA, which services Boston and the surrounding area, is launching a pilot program this summer in which urine detection sensors will be placed in four downtown...

Gov: Runaway
Boston Train Was
'Tampered With'

Dec 10, 2015 12:21 PM CST

Gov: Runaway Boston Train Was 'Tampered With'

It took off with 50 passengers, no driver

(Newser) - About 50 Boston commuters got the creepiest ride of their lives Thursday morning when their train took off without a driver. MBTA authorities were eventually able to stop the train, but not before it went through four stations, reports the Boston Globe . None of the passengers were hurt. How it...

Cops: Man
Takes Phone
—After Woman
Killed by Train

Nov 8, 2014 6:19 AM CST

Cops: Man Takes Phone —After Woman Killed by Train

Boston transit authorities looking for him

(Newser) - There are Good Samaritans and then there are, well, this guy. Transit police in Boston are seeking a man who walked away with a woman's phone after she was struck and killed by a subway train, reports the Boston Herald . Surveillance video shows that after the woman was hit...

Twitter Nabs Subway Flasher

Aug 9, 2010 5:30 AM CDT

Twitter Nabs Subway Flasher

Tweeted photo leads cops to perv

(Newser) - When a flasher started openly fondling himself on a Boston subway last week, fellow passenger Nay Khun took the issue to Twitter. Khun snapped and immediately tweeted a photo of the flasher, writing: "pervert on the 2nd car of the red line ... help me report him." Thanks in...

Boston Subway
Just Misses Woman

WATCH THE VIDEO

Nov 10, 2009 12:10 PM CST

Boston Subway Just Misses Woman

Driver, another employee honored for quick action

(Newser) - A Boston subway train came to a screeching halt just before hitting a woman who had fallen onto the tracks. She told authorities afterward she'd been drinking. Both the train's driver and another Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority employee have been hailed as heroes for their quick action.

Texting Driver Causes Boston Subway Crash

May 9, 2009 12:30 PM CDT

Texting Driver Causes Boston Subway Crash

Collision in tunnel injures 49, including tech-addled conductor

(Newser) - A subway conductor distracted by the text message he was sending his girlfriend caused a collision in a tunnel beneath downtown Boston last night, the Globe reports. One two-car Green Line trolley rear-ended another at the Government Center station, injuring 49. The victims included the 24-year-old texting driver, who will...