Everything else, however, is banned near the JFK Building.

There's a fire at Government Center T station.
It was repoerted @ 10am, but they're still announcing it now, without any details.

If you're sitting on one of those wooden benches on Cambridge Street by City Hall Plaza and you happen to look over toward the Steaming Kettle, you'll see it's T(ea) time at Government Center.

The Accidental Fiddler reports on a woman with issues at the Government Center T stop:

A middle-aged woman in a powder-blue Red Sox cap pulled down over her eyes was going around fake sneezing and saying "I'm allergic to evil!" ...

Thanks to delays in bring the miracle that is the CharlieCard to the boonies, Jemima Pereira is forced to use a FrankenCharlieTicket, which causes her grief like you CharlieCard users couldn't imagine, from her fingers getting sucked into the slot (which hurts) to the general disdain of half the T's bus and trolley drivers. And now her ticket won't even work at Government Center because of a software glitch:

So I have a suggestion for the MBTA. Why don't you get a copy of the software on the turnstiles at Kenmore and put it on the turnstiles at Government Center, eh? ... And here's an even better suggestion: stop running a major transit system on WindowsXP.

Right at rush hour, of course.

Ben Ostrander has started tracking how long it takes for a B train to show up at Government Center during his evening commute:

Date: 10.23.07
Time: 5:23 pm
Wait: 15 minutes, 28 seconds

I was passed up by 4 E Line trains (not including the one I arrived on at Government Center), 3 C Line trains, and 3 D Line trains.

OK, this makes sense - you don't want trolleys to bunch up like buses - but it still seems like the sort of thing that could only happen on the T. Npwest reports:

I was riding the green line (B) line from Government Center today when it stopped not once, but TWICE for about 3 minutes or so, because it was AHEAD OF SCHEDULE! I shared a rare, brief laugh with my fellow T-riders after asking, "Wait, the green line has a schedule?" ...

Susie reports talking to the parents of two little kids on a C car yesterday:

... The mom and dad informed us that the kids had never been on a subway. So, they were riding the T from Government Center to the end of the C-line and then right back to Government Center...for fun. Fun and T in the same sentence? The kids were ecstatic to be riding the T, despite the fact that our car was packed full with people leaving the Sox game. ...

I can't tell if the anonymous poster of this note outside the Government Center T stop is glad or upset about this secret action by Congress: