Blue Line, MBTA and cable
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More than 450 MBTA passengers were evacuated from a Blue Line train in the tunnel under the Boston Harbor due to a signal issue Tuesday afternoon.
Officials said Wednesday a decades-old cable that fell inside a subway tunnel a day earlier was the reason why a Blue Line train was halted, stranding hundreds of passengers under Boston Harbor. MBTA general manager Phil Eng issued an apology to riders about the incident,
A person died after they were struck by an MBTA Blue Line train, with shuttles provided to passengers at the station.
Service on one of the MBTA’s commuter rail lines was disrupted on Tuesday afternoon after a car crashed into a train, officials said. The driver of a Tesla drove around closed crossing gates and struck a commuter rail train in Hingham, a Keolis spokesperson told Boston 25 News.