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

Finn posts a photo of the rear window of a 9 bus, which, he reports, somebody shot out with an air rifle at Dorchester Street and Broadway around 7:15 p.m. Nobody hurt, he adds.

Guy jumped. Guy didn't survive.

MBTA surveillance photo shows T customer service agent (in purple) hip-checking suspect. Via MBTA.

Casey Tarushka, 23, was arrested on a larceny charge this morning after allegedly lifting a woman's BlackBerry - and after being detained by T workers, one of whom hip-checked him into a CSA booth as he tried fleeing.

Bail for Tarushka, formerly of Hull, was set at $1,500 in South Boston District Court. Prosecutors charge he snatched a BlackBerry out of a woman's bag, which was on the floor of a Red Line train pulling into Broadway around 9:30 this morning. When the train stopped, the woman happened to notice her phone was gone and spotted Tarushka and a gal pal rushing out, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office:

The victim observed Tarushka attempting to rush through the crowd while clutching her phone against his chest. She ran, caught up with him, and took it back. Tarushka's female accomplice allegedly shoved her. When the suspects allegedly tried to flee, she raced after him.

Stop him," she cried out.

The woman, described as white, with short blonde hair, long fingernails, and an eyebrow ring, and who may be known as "Cat", escaped.

The DA's office says police confiscated a small amount of marijuana from Tarushka, who allegedly told officers he was on his way to a methadone clinic.

Innocent, etc.

Signal problems at Broadway mean long waits for commuters from the south, and now the T reports a disabled train at Downtown Crossing is messing up the commute from the north.

Ursamajor tweets:

Parked underground just past Kendall for the last 15 minutes. Some train didn't have their Dunkies this morning.

The MBTA "security detail" was at Broadway stop this morning, although they didn't seem that interested in checking anyone's briefcase. They were just chatting and drinking coffee amongst themselves...

Because the city's declared a snow emergency
and ordered everybody off
On Broadway.

In South Boston, that is.

Library hallway
Customers services at our library decline in that people are made to
sit in the hallway waiting for access to a featured library service
without access to any books for browsing or other materials.
If books for browsing can not be made available in the hallway,
a bulletin board could be there for browsing whatever's happening
around the community.

Reading room
The current reference department reading room could be set up more
with the comfort of library users/customers/consumers in mind.

Screens.
Reference department librarians searching for information for

Jenny reports on an awful incident involving a little kid stuck in a door as her Red Line train started leaving Broadway yesterday afternoon:

... Everyone who noticed started screaming, causing anyone who hadn't noticed to look up and panic.

A group of about five launched at the Emergency Button and Emergency Brake located at the end of each car. After about five pushes of the button it was clear that it was either a) broken or b) being ignored.

The train never stopped. ...

OK, so some passengers managed to extricate the kid from the door. And then there was even more fun involving a door that opened by itself as the train approached JFK and T workers who just didn't give a shit.