Enuh Cork reports the automated announcer at Malden took yesterday morning off:

... [S]o I did not know the exact moment when the next train to Forest Hills was approaching or arriving. It's hard to understand how I got on the train without any warning.

Sorry, Charlie.

At least once a year, Cleary Squared makes a point of traveling down to Providence, because it's a refreshing change from Boston:

Rhode Island's singleton Ivy League school, Brown University, isn't swarming with hipster doofuses, nutty conspiracy theorists, bums, and other poseurs. I walked up and down Thayer Street - Providence's equivalent of Harvard Square - without being accosted, jostled, harangued, or being passed by as if I weren't there. You felt as if you were part of the neighborhood, not as someone you though was going to freakin' slow and if you had the power, you'd lift the damn sidewalk.

He also shows how to get there for a lot less than taking commuter rail or Amtrak from South Station - in a route involving the Orange Line, a bus trip to Cleary Square and then commuter rail from Hyde Park.

Herald: Critics blast T for missed 'warnings'.

The Outraged Liberal fumes:

Sadly, it has taken a death for the MBTA -- and the rest of the world for that matter -- to take a look at the Green Line. And what we are seeing should give real pause to the idea of expanding its reach. ...

Arborway happened to photograph Green Line car 3667, one of the cars destroyed in the Newton crash, at Reservoir last summer.

D Line trains collided about an hour ago. It looks pretty nasty -- channel 5 is saying there's at least one person trapped, and several injuries.

Red Line service disrupted by fire at Downtown Crossing this afternoon rush hour (Orange Line, too, but not for as long).

Firetruck on Washington Street.

Globe: T police stop citing riders who evade fares.

Oh, those wacky disgruntled MBTA police! TJIC notes the article presents two rationalizations for not going after fare evaders: It's too mundane and it's too dangerous. The danger of mundanity? Sounds like some officers are upset they don't get to dress up like RoboCop and play with those big guns. Or as TJIC asks:

Question to cops: what do you think your job actually is?

The Outraged Liberal actually says something nice about T General Manager Dan Grabauskas, who actually wants the police to do their job.

State Sen. Jack Hart of South Boston is co-sponsor of a bill that would eliminate the MBTA's separate police force by merging its 257 officers into the State Police, the Bulletin reports.

Kerry Batchelder has no choice but to watch two guys bellow at each other on the Red Line:

Well, you missed a doosey. Such as one guy screaming that he 'runs' Central Square and that the other should never show up there. To which the other guy came back with, "I don't live in Central Square, I live in my house!!"