Coin toss, MBTA style, as captured by a bus surveillance camera.

A Dorchester woman faces assault and battery charges after allegedly throwing a bunch of coins at a driver on a Route 66 bus who wouldn't let her board because the amount of coins wasn't enough for one fare.

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Boston Police report somebody was stabbed on the Orange Line platform around 3:15 this afternoon.

So the Roxbury Crossing T stop now has a stylized mural-like thing of the nearby mosque and some people are upset:

As the photographer points out, the Boston public transportation system does not sport crosses, stars of David, or other religious insignia. How did this exception come about? One hopes that Bostonians are not so beat down by ISB litigiousness that they have lost all curiosity about that institution's activities.

Looks like Boston's not an Irish town anymore. This reminds of gang colors and insignia posted all over American buildings, roadways, etc., used as "turf markers."

Oy. I have no love for the the Jew-hating First Amendment deniers at the Islamic Society of Boston, but really, turf marking? Should criminals get outraged that Forest Hills station has a stylized iconish sign pointing to the nearby West Roxbury District Court?

Rene Torres, 18, was arrested today on charges he sliced up a couple of other teens at the Orange Line station during the afternoon rush hour on March 6, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office and MBTA police announced today. He was arrested around 1 p.m. today as he walked from his Slayton Way home to the Jackson Square T stop, officials said. Torres is scheduled to be arraigned in the morning on two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in Roxbury District Court.

UPDATE: Teen arrested for the stabbings on March 11.

Two stabbed at Roxbury Crossing around 5:30 p.m.

On One Smoot Short of a Bridge, eeka reports:

... I called the MBTA police to tell them I was at Roxbury Crossing and the elevator and escalator were both out. The officer said he'd transfer me to the right place.

He transferred me to customer service voicemail.

I called back, stated that voicemail wasn't going to get me out of the station. He stated that he'd send over an inspector.

The inspector came after about 15 minutes, walked over to the escalator and elevator, pulled out a key, and turned the power back on. I might add that he turned it back on while several able-bodied people were walking up the escalator. They jolted, then screamed at him that he might want to tell people before doing that. ...

BadTransit, meanwhile, describes all the fun he had thanks to the T's inability to let riders know about service outages.