But the MBTA reports "this delay has been cleared," which we assume means something other than that they shoved the train off side of the viaduct.

With the first of the 8 p.m. shutdowns of the Blue Line for track work beginning tonight, the MBTA is announcing a series of similar shutdowns on the Red and Green Lines, along with shutdowns on the Orange and Silver Lines, as the T works through all the slow zones that have turned many commutes into something like riding the back of a snail even aside from the reduced service caused by a lack of dispatchers. Read more.

The MBTA reports the Green Line is currently running 15 minutes slower inbound than it normally runs slow these days due to signal problems at Copley.

One of the MBTA's newest trolleys suffered some sort of catastrophic failure with that swiveling mechanism in the center of the car near Boylston shortly before 3 p.m., jamming up the line on one of its busiest days of the year - and leaving some passengers on other trolleys trapped for an hour or more as T workers tried to get them and the newly dysfunctional trolley safely out of the tunnels. Read more.

Ed. note: Google Maps says it would take 99 minutes to walk from Ashmont to the Pru.

That girl that likes planez chronicled her commute this morning, starting at 7:51 a.m., when, she reported, she was sitting on a Red Line train at Ashmont six minutes after she boarded it: Read more.

The MBTA has unveiled its speed restrictions dashboard so you can see where somebody on a bicycle can pedal faster than a subway train - like much of the Blue Line and the Green Line between Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton and the Lechmere viaduct.

The T promises to update the page every day so riders can follow along as the T clears, or doesn't, the slow zones that have long plagued riders and all the new ones that were added over the past couple months.

After saying yesterday the only reason to keep the entire Green Line as a slow zone was to put up signs to alert train drivers to individualized slow zones, the MBTA announced today it's steady, um, slow as she goes for the entire Green Line because they've found more track problems. Read more.

Interim MBTA General Manager Jeff Gonneville says the T is continuing to work through a morass of track defects across all four subway lines and that he hopes to lift the "global" speed restrictions on the Green Line with the start of service on Saturday. Read more.

The T sounded the alarm tonight: Nearly a third of the tracks on the Red, Orange and Blue Lines remain subject to snailish speed restrictions, which are in place along all the tracks on the Green and Mattapan lines. Read more.