Photo from back in the day.

For the same reason trucks have been banned from everybody's favorite rusted-out hulk of a bridge. Ron Newman asks; Joe Pesaturo at the T answers: It's 10 m.p.h. for Red Line trains until the Department of Conservation and Recreation tells the T otherwise.

The Cambridge Chronicle headline sums it up: Red Line trains briefly halted as cops search for bank robber with 'skin problem'.

But that was yesterday, so probably not related to tonight's Red Line "signal problems" ...

John Greiner-Ferris explains why you need to keep it down while on your cell phone on the T.

Proof.

They were arrested on Friday on charges they got into a cab, attacked the driver, then stole his cab. They were tracked down in part thanks to a GPS unit in the cab.

Joe Pesaturo at the T reports that workers finished the emergency tie replacement work on the inbound side of the Longfellow Bridge this weekend (700 brand spanking new ties) but that they still need to do some track tamping and surfacing tonight and tomorrow night. Once that's finished, it's full speed ahead for the morning commute into town come Wednesday, he says.

The afternoon commute, however, will continue to afford passengers extra time to enjoy the Boston skyline: Workers will be replacing ties on the outbound side on the weekends of July 12 and July 19.

Joe Pesaturo at the MBTA passes along a letter to the T from Daniel Verinder of Jamaica Plain:

Recently, I was preparing to enter the gates at the southbound T station at Kendall when a passenger said to me, "I'm going to go through with you," meaning that they were going to enter for free on my pass. Without thinking about it, I said, "OK." But as I entered the train car, I started thinking about how unreasonable this action was. I am a big fan of public transit, including the MBTA, and I did not like the though that I had cost the MBTA money. ... Regardless of the fare-evader's economic situation, the MBTA should not be the one to suffer for their lack of funding.

So Verinder bought a CharlieTicket and sent it back to the T and made a donation to Alternatives for Community and Environment. And next time, he says, he'll pay for a CharlieTicket for somebody who wants to get in with him for free.

Stephen Laniel reminds us it's another weekend of no service across the Longfellow as the T works to keep the trains on the tracks and out of the river.

Double slumpers on the Red Line.