N. forwards this photo, which he took around 5:20 p.m. on Tuesday on the Red Line. "Good time and place for a dog walk," he writes.

Average weekday ridership on the T went up 5% in March compared to last year, the state reports.

The Green and Mattapan lines saw the biggest jump in ridership; buses the smallest.

The Herald reports the T is readying a policy that would require parents to fold their strollers while on trains.

MBTA GM Richard Davey: "There are some that are like SUVs."

Carla, mother of two, however, is aghast:

On busy train, parent should stand holding baby in 1 hand, stoller in other, & not be able to hang on to anything? Unsafe.

A roving correspondent forwards this photo from the Green Line today. Proof the T's clean-up efforts are working?

Don't worry: They'll be painted silver and purple.

MBTA General Manager Rich Davey was in Korea this week, touring the Hyundai-Rotem plant in Changwon, which is building four test coaches for the MBTA. The T reports Davey paid his own way.

The T has a $190-million contract with the company for 75 of the double-decker cars, some of which are expected to begin rolling on local rails in December for testing, with the rest slated for delivery between next summer and the winter of 2013. Aside from the four test coaches, all will be built in a Hyundai-Rotem factory in Philadelphia - which, with any luck, will have solved the labor and manufacturing problems it's now having with coaches meant for the Philadelphia equivalent of the MBTA.

Picture this with seats and lights and windows. Photo by Rich Davey.

ED NOTE: Jacqueline Church filed a complaint with the MBTA over events she witnessed on a southbound Red Line train at Park Street around 3:15 p.m. yesterday. The following is an edited copy of her complaint, which she prefaced with: "Seeing someone nearly die in front of you can really put a damper on your day. Watching public transportation employees impede swift care, then deny the need for better emergency medical procedures, is worse. Then having no one in subsequent calls show one iota of accountability or sense of responsibility is infuriating. As a taxpayer I'm incensed.

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a man they say continued to steal a busker's tips yesterday afternoon even as a T customer-service agent yelled at him to stop.

LeDonte Fisher, 35, was arrested at Boylston station after making a getaway on an inbound trolley, according to a report by Transit Police.

Police say that around 4:10 p.m., Fisher first "piggybacked" into Arlington station by closely following somebody with a CharlieCard, then grabbed the 67-year-old busker's tip cup - all under the eye of an MBTA worker:

Amy L. Clark recounts an incident on an Orange Line train heading inbound towards Back Bay.