Charlie on the MBTA reports that Tom Menino wants legislation to make the MBTA change the name of Copley station to Copley/BPL station.

Zolok, who experienced the Moscow subway during the 1980s, gets off the Red Line at Alewife last night and says The T could learn a thing or two about subway operation:

I could've gotten to Alewife faster if the MBTA had the foresight to hitch up our train to a team of oxen.

No joke, I was a young man when I boarded that train full of naive' hopes about overcoming "switching problems in Davis Square", decades later we limped into Alewife liked the starved survivors of Stalin's GULAG. ...

Russ Stein wishes the tall Metro hawker at Green Street would just go away:

... He's like seven feet tall and runs from one end of the station to the other shouting shit like, "Aw yeah, I've got your Metro!" and "It's a great day for a Metro!" while getting in the way of people trying to catch the train. I've also heard him muttering some ex-junkie Jesus bullshit when dodging him. ...

Mac Daniel reports MBTA officials have identified the trolley driver - and he hears from the off-duty New Hampshire police officer who watched after the girl until she was re-united with her mother.

Good Lord - and thank goodness for the kindness of strangers.

It's one thing for somebody in her own car to get distracted by her cell phone; quite another when she's a driver on the 137 bus out of Oak Grove.

No big surprise to Green Line regulars, but still, Charlie on the MBTA gets the goods on a state auditor's report on those Breda trolley cars.

Charles Bandes wonders if the woman with the heart drawn on her forehead on the Red Line last night is in love or just lost a bet.

Talonvaki was at the Porter Square T stop last night heading inbound when the announcement came on that service was suspended in both directions because of a "medical emergency" at Harvard, and that riders should go upstairs for shuttle buses:

... So I get up to the surface along with everyone else and there's lots of shuttle buses going to Alewife. But Harvard and points south? Not so much. Some people took the 77 bus, but then one of the drivers said it wasn't a shuttle and was making people pay again. ...