The 4:25 train to Newburyport stopped in Chelsea when smoke began rising into the passenger compartments and the train crew evacuated passengers. "This doesn't look good for getting home on time," Liz Polay-Wettengel tweeted - from the train, just before it was evacuated.

Now word comes that a T bus and a car have smashed together, also in Chelsea.

M reports witnessing an argument this morning on the 9 bus between a woman and a man who tried using her knee as an armrest so he could read the paper:

Angry Business Man: You could have picked any other seat, but you had to sit right there when I was already sitting here.

Woman: That's how the bus works in the morning ... you fill in the bus so everyone can get on.

A.B.M.: That's just so f****in inconsiderate. You are such a b**ch. ...

John Keith reports the current crop of MBTA city of Boston bus shelters do a great job at protecting the ads built into them, but simply suck at preventing people from getting wet.

Grimlocke, who was nearly pancaked by a 66 bus last week reports swfit action by the MBTA:

I apologize for reckless driving exhibited by one of our employees. MBTA Bus operators must complete a comprehensive Defensive Drivers Course prior to being certified to operate an MBTA vehicle in passenger service. This operator has been identified and will be re-instructed on her duties and responsibilities as a professional driver

T-Tracker provides real-time bus tracking for the 39, 111, 114, 116 and 117 routes. It's using the same GPS-based feed the T opened up to private software developers in November.

Booking photo.Cambridge and MBTA Transit Police today report the arrest of John B. Dysart, 27, of Dorchester on charges he attacked two women as they left the Central Square T stop last week and of masturbating on T buses in Dorchester and Brighton.

Dysart is formally charged with indecent assault and battery and open and gross lewdness by Cambridge Police for incidents last Wednesday night and three counts of open and gross lewdness by Transit Police.

Georgy gives five reasons why, when given the chance between taking a bus or, say, the Red Line from A to B, she'll go with the bus every time:

Fleece!

An MBTA bus was traveling at a low rate of speed down Huntington Avenue shortly after midnight. when it hit a man now in the ICU, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

State Police homicide investigators have joined MBTA Transit Police in trying to figure out what happened on Huntington Avenue near the Prudential Center because there is a possibility the victim, identified only as a 54-year-old man, could die, the DA's office say.

According to a statement: