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An effort to force the MBTA to sound train horns at every pedestrian crossing that cuts through a station is heading to a showdown next month in Suffolk County Superior Court when lawyers will argue over whether a former train operator has standing to go after the public transit agency.
There is a growing push in Massachusetts to get rid of so-called “quiet zones,” areas of train track where engineers cannot blow their horns.
After the 2019 death of Emerson College professor Moses Shumow, a lawyer has been working to get state agencies to require trains to sound their horns before pedestrian crossings inside stations. On Monday, he took the fight to the state's highest court.
A woman’s husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months, yet she had stayed by his bedside every day.