Wu’s comments came less than a month before a 43-year-old Orange Line subway train caught fire as it was crossing a bridge north of Boston on July 21, prompting one passenger to jump into the ...

The T aims to increase subway speeds on the Braintree branch of the Red Line to 50 mph within the next few days, and to 55 ...

The creation of the Boston subway system — the country’s first — is the subject of the new American Experience film, The Race Underground. It’s also one of our nation’s oldest startup ...

Boston has notoriously bad traffic, but does it have to be that way? Economists, planners, transit advocates, and politicians ...

Boston and the MBTA will receive nearly $13 million from the from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to protect ...

The owner of six sandwich shop franchises located in different Central Massachusetts communities will be required to pay back ...

American Experience rode with Most on the original line — just three stops from one end of the Boston Common to the other — and talked about the past, present and future of the subway.

In March 1895, Boston and New York City began an epic and highly competitive race to become the first American city with a working subway system. Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Ou ...