Anna B. recently moved to Quincy and reports on her experiences to date on the Red Line, including:

... Also, it was hilarious seeing a bunch of passengers reading the Metro article about T safety while we were stuck at North Quincy due to a dead train ahead of us. ...

Meanwhile, at the other end of the Red Line, Bill Yelenak tweets he dodged a bullet this morning:

I took the Red Line to work today from Davis Square and didn't die.

Dan Dunn poses this stumper this morning:

What's long, slow, red, and takes 45 minutes from Alewife to Kendall?

Blame, no, not slippery rails, but that other fave, signal problems.

Carlyle

The MBTA reports Transit Police arrested two alleged gropers last night, one for an incident at Copley station around 10 p.m., the other for an incident this past June in Quincy.

On the Green Line, MBTA Transit Police arrested William Carlyle, 52, of Northampton Street in Boston on a charge of indecent assault and battery after he allegedly put his hands where he shouldn't have on the rear of a Revere woman:

If you decide you don't really need to bring your laptop, $700 digital camera and Celtics season tickets to work with you, you probably at least want to put them in the trunk, MBTA Transit Police suggest.

Broke train at Broadway
Means a lot of rider angst
Just another Friday.

Why Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? The Pervasiveness of Equal Headway Instability.

Although the paper attempts a generalized discussion of the issue, it specifically mentions the MBTA's attempt to deal with the problem by periodically running express Red Line trains.

Via Mike the Mad Biologist.

Boston Fire tweets there was a small track fire on the Red Line outbound at Downtown Crossing shortly after midnight. No injuries.

Back in September:
Meltdown on the Red and Orange lines.

Dead train near Central Square for you Red Line fans; broken train at Airport inbound for you Blue Line loyalists.

16WadeSt reports these Cambridge firefighters took the T from Kendall to Central this evening.

Copyright 16WadeSt. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.