The MBTA posted this video from the re-dedication of the Kendall Band at the Kendall Square Red Line stop today.

Paul McMorrow explains the rock and the hard place: On the one hand, the T is legally required to extend the Green Line to Somerville and Medford, at a cost now approaching $1 billion. On the other hand, shaky finances and any construction delays could jeopardize $760 million in federal funding for the project, leaving the state to figure out how to make up the difference.

Don't worry: They'll be painted silver and purple.

MBTA General Manager Rich Davey was in Korea this week, touring the Hyundai-Rotem plant in Changwon, which is building four test coaches for the MBTA. The T reports Davey paid his own way.

The T has a $190-million contract with the company for 75 of the double-decker cars, some of which are expected to begin rolling on local rails in December for testing, with the rest slated for delivery between next summer and the winter of 2013. Aside from the four test coaches, all will be built in a Hyundai-Rotem factory in Philadelphia - which, with any luck, will have solved the labor and manufacturing problems it's now having with coaches meant for the Philadelphia equivalent of the MBTA.

Picture this with seats and lights and windows. Photo by Rich Davey.

ED NOTE: Jacqueline Church filed a complaint with the MBTA over events she witnessed on a southbound Red Line train at Park Street around 3:15 p.m. yesterday. The following is an edited copy of her complaint, which she prefaced with: "Seeing someone nearly die in front of you can really put a damper on your day. Watching public transportation employees impede swift care, then deny the need for better emergency medical procedures, is worse. Then having no one in subsequent calls show one iota of accountability or sense of responsibility is infuriating. As a taxpayer I'm incensed.

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a man they say continued to steal a busker's tips yesterday afternoon even as a T customer-service agent yelled at him to stop.

LeDonte Fisher, 35, was arrested at Boylston station after making a getaway on an inbound trolley, according to a report by Transit Police.

Police say that around 4:10 p.m., Fisher first "piggybacked" into Arlington station by closely following somebody with a CharlieCard, then grabbed the 67-year-old busker's tip cup - all under the eye of an MBTA worker:

Amy L. Clark recounts an incident on an Orange Line train heading inbound towards Back Bay.

The MBTA is soliciting bids for the garage it owns under North Station. Minimum bid price: $65 million to lease it for the next 50 years (payable in 30 annual installments) or $70 million to buy it outright. Bids for the 1,275-space garage are due July 27 to Transit Realty.

Dead train means down time for Red Line commuters this morning.

At 9:37, Geoff Mamlet tweeted:

Red line Harvard Sq platform packed like sardines. 2 trains taken out of service. 30 min delay.

At 9:38, Angie tweeted:

Current commuting time from Davis to Porter: 40 minutes. I hate you, mbta.

It was so bad, even the five-star-day train driver got in the act, Mamlet added:

Red line announcer: "Don't let us get you down! Have a 5 star day!"