The MBTA says new Silver Line 4 service will get riders from Dudley Station to South Station in 30 minutes, with the first, ceremonial, run scheduled for 1 p.m. on Tuesday.

Buses are scheduled for every 10 minutes during rush hour and 15 minutes the rest of the day. T officials say federal stimulus money was used to get the service started.

The existing Dudley-to-Downtown-Crossing service is now SL5. SL3, which served part of the South Boston waterfront, was discontinued.

The state will use $114 million in federal stimulus funds to build enhanced bus corridors along Washington Street and Blue Hill Avenue over the next three years, officials announced at a Dudley Station ceremony today.

Most immediately, Dudley will get a direct Silver Line connection to South Station this fall - which brought exclamations of joy from state Rep. Bryon Rushing, because the plan does not involve a billion-dollar tunnel under the Common.

"The tunnel is dead! The tunnel is dead!" he yelled.

The allegedly kicked dog, in Transit Police custody.

Transit Police report arresting an alleged drunk whom witnesses say was kicking the hell out of a little terrier yesterday afternoon near an entrance to the Dudley bus stop.

According to police, around 1:25 p.m., witnesses watched Cielo Caraballo, 49, abuse "a small, light colored terrier wearing a purple leash" - and one tried to intervene:

Woman yelled, he got arrested, on bus near Dudley.