Transportation

The Ever-Changing Forest Hills Station

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To paraphrase Mark Twain's comment on New England weather if you don't like Forest Hills Station just wait at a while...in this case 25 years. The top photograph was taken on Oct. 19, 1987, five months after the new Forest Hills Orange Line terminal opened. The switching tracks and old station were razed in the next year. The elevated track bed was replaced by the surface parking lot and the lower Hyde Park Avenue busway replaced the old elevated station.

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Transportation

Forest Hills Busway Canopy to be Razed Beginning Oct. 3

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MassDOT  announced that beginning 1 am Sat Oct 3 through 5 am Monday Oct 5 working around the clock , Barletta Heavy Construction will remove the canopy over the upper busway (opposite the Arboretum). All buses will be diverted to the Hyde Park Avenue busway during that week end. The upper canopy was designed as an integral part of Forest Hills Station by  Cambridge Seven Associates. It  opened in 1987.  

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Photo of the Day

Green Street Station Lights

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Lights, Green Street T Station, June 10, 2015. Credit: Chris Helms

Each weekday we post a “Photo of the Day” from around the neighborhood. If you have a photo that screams (or even whispers) "Jamaica Plain," here are four ways to nominate it. Email me at chris@jamaicaplainnews

Tag a picture on Twitter with @02130News

Put your photo in the Jamaica Plain News photo pool on Flickr

Tag a picture on Instagram with #02130News

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Concrete and rebar remains from the razing of the Casey Overpass, Monday, June 29, 2015.
Transportation

Casey Debris: Where Does It All Go?

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The 5-year-old child of a Jamaica Plain News reader, seeing the mountains of debris being made as the Casey Overpass is torn down, asked "Where does it all go?" We found out. According to the Department of Transportation, the materials are being trucked to several different facilities. Ferrous and non-ferrous materials:

Prolerized New England Co. of Everett

Asphalt, granite, brick and concrete:

Benevento Companies and Concrete, Wilmington
Galloway, Plaistow, N.H.
J.R. Vinagro Corp., Johnston, R.I.

Wood and debris:

Charles George Companies Inc., Londonderry, N.H.
Environmental Resources Return Corp., Epping, N.H.
Bio Fuels Inc., Lewiston, Maine

Jamaica Plain has seen major demolition like this before.

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The Jamaica Plain portion of the Orange Line, as seen on a subway car map.
Transportation

It’s Shuttle Buses, Not Subway Service for Orange Line Next Two Weekends

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Just in case subway riders haven't gotten a taste of Casey Arborway construction traffic, the T will be putting Orange Line passengers in shuttle buses this Saturday and Sunday, and again next weekend. The shuttle buses will be running so track and signal work can be done. The closures are in both directions from Ruggles to Forest Hills. Casey construction hours generally run through about 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays, though night work is slated to begin at 8 p.m. on Sunday, June 14, the last scheduled day of bus replacement service. For more on the subway closures, please visit the T's Website.

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Police and Fire

JP Teen Allegedly Surfed on Outside of Orange Line Train

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UPDATE: The alleged train surfer told WCVB "it was stupid." T police told Jamaica Plain News they believe they've identified the other two men in the video and hope to bring charges against them too. ~~~~~

Transit Police posted a video of three young men holding on to the outside of an Orange Line train as it pulls out of Back Bay. One man has been arrested in connection with what cops called the "deadly, criminal" stunts. MBTA Police charged Jonathan Lopez, 18, of Jamaica Plain with riding upon a train other than as a fare paying passenger (train surfing) and disorderly conduct.

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Photo of the Day

Orange Streak at Green

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Untitled photo by William Brokhof, taken at Green Street Station. Other works by Jamaica Plain photographer Will Brokhof are on display at James's Gate. Brokhof tells Jamaica Plain News he'll donate a few of them for next Sunday's Art4Music fundraiser, which benefits the Jamaica Plain Music Festival. Each weekday we post a “Photo of the Day” from around the neighborhood. If you have a photo that screams (or even whispers) "Jamaica Plain," here are four ways to nominate it:

Email me at chris@jamaicaplainnews

Tag a picture on Twitter with @02130News

Put your photo in the Jamaica Plain News photo pool on Flickr

Tag a picture on Instagram with #02130News

[Editor's note: The photo above is not one of the ones in the James's Gate show.]
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Police and Fire

Teen Nabbed Who Grabbed Woman’s Phone at Stony Brook

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MBTA Police warn against using your smart phone on the T. It distracts you and makes you an easy target for thieves. A 50-year-old woman sitting on an Orange Line train learned that lesson Friday morning when a teen swiped her phone and sprinted out the door at Stony Brook. The incident took place just before 7:30 a.m., according to Transit Police. The woman was sitting in what T police call "the hot seat" for being the target of theft — the one right beside the train door. Police say an MBTA employee, guided by shouts from the victim's fellow passengers, was able to keep the young man from getting out of the station.

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Dion Stickter, 45, of Boston
Police and Fire

Cops: Man Pummels T Worker at Forest Hills Station

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Transit Police say a man lashed out with his fists Wednesday night when a T worker tried to wake him up. The man was sleeping in a car that had pulled in to Forest Hills Station, which is the end of the Orange Line. On waking up, the man "struck the female employee with a closed fist multiple times about her torso area." The incident began shortly before 9:40 p.m.

Police say the trouble didn't stop there. The man allegedly used racial epithets against officers as well.

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The Jamaica Plain portion of the Orange Line, as seen on a subway car map.
Transportation

Yes, Orange Line Trains *Are* Running From Forest Hills

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The MBTA had originally said that Tuesday rail service from Forest Hills would be like Monday's — AKA nada. But as of Tuesday morning, a reduced number of trains are making the trip from Forest Hills as far as Sullivan Square. The T's "Winter" page indicates Green Line trolleys still aren't running to JP. You'll have bus replacement service along the E line from Heath to Symphony on Tuesday. The Orange Line news wasn't widely publicized at first, as evidenced by this Tweet:

#OrangeLine running and basically empty to FH?

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