Massachusetts has one of the most heavily used light rail lines in the country – the Green Line, named accordingly as it primarily passes through a place known as the Emerald Necklace of Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) runs this streetcar system, which is the oldest line of…
Three people sustained Boston injuries on Monday in a collision involving two Green line trolleys. According to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, human error was the cause of the accident. The Boston trolley crash occurred in the afternoon in the 700 block of Huntington Avenue on the Green Line’s “E”…
A jury has awarded Colleen Fyffe $1.2 million for injuries she sustained in the 2009 Green Line trolley crash that was caused by an operator who was text messaging. This is the first of 24 Boston personal injury lawsuits related to the accident, which injured 49 people. Nine of the…
According to a recent study from the Urban Land Institute, an increase in the number of riders and construction projects around existing transit stations could overwhelm the system. The Boston branch of the nonprofit-a leading land-use think tank-has warned that ridership could increase 20 percent by the end of the…
Clearly, we’re all aware that the MBTA is in dire straits and is desperately trying to cut costs. The issue of cutting T services and/or hiking T fares has been the most prominent issue, which is reasonable given that such changes would impact a great number of Massachusetts residents on…
The family of Samantha Mattei is suing MBTA and trolley operated Aiden Quinn for Boston personal injury. Mattei is one of 68 people who were injured in the 2009 MBTA green line trolley accident caused by Quinn, who was text messaging. Mattei, who was a freshman at Merrimack College at…
Our Boston attorneys have recently seen that a 55-year-old resident of Millbury was hit by a MBTA commuter rail train yesterday afternoon. The accident occurred on the tracks near 61 Frank Street in Worcester. The commuter rail train left Boston at 2:40 p.m. and was traveling at approximately 40 mph…
Speaking exclusively to WHDH, Betty Velasquez says the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority is not taking the injuries she sustained when her purse, arm, and foot became trapped in a train door seriously. Velasquez, a Quincy resident, says the incident caused her to fall consciousness and temporarily lose feeling in her…
A 2009 poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation reports that in the last year, up to 1.9 million US motorists have either been in a motor vehicle accident or were nearly in an auto collision because they were drowsy while driving. 105 million motorists admitted that they’ve driven while…
It’s been eight months since an 82-year-old Dorchester woman died while riding an MBTA escalator. Now, the family of Helen Jackson is suing the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for Boston wrongful death. The lawsuit alleges that Jackson died of strangulation when, during a fall accident while riding the escalator, her…