When her trolley at Ashmont yesterday pulled up lame and then the dispatchers wouldn't let the next trolley roll into the station for some time, Cowbark refused to grumble and foot-stomp like everybody else:

Me? I was happy reading my magazine, and then put it away for a bit to take some photos. You know this is significant because I was also standing in the freezing cold and I still wasn't complaining!

William provides photographic proof that the extra-long 39 buses are every bit as effective at completely blocking traffic on Centre Street as the old trolleys were.

I think my number was five, although I could've gotten that down to one if I hadn't also tried to scrape off my wife's car in addition to mine.

Don Martelli, meanwhile, turns into one of those crabby bloggers the MBTA is always ignoring:

When conditions are icey, can you please alert bus riders on the 110
from Revere to Wellington Station in Medford that the bus will be
bypassing the Park Ave hill due to conditions? You have a website.
Use it. How about text alerts? ...

And Alison Driscoll tweets from South Station:

Nice, train late again and noone knows why. No T alert either. ...

Has to be Readville station at night in the middle of winter, when passing Amtrak trains kick up clouds of snow and even the commuter-rail trains speed through without stopping.

Let's say you're using the toilet and as you get up, but before you flush, you realize your CharlieCard has somehow fallen into the bowl. Do you retrieve it?

Laura Scannell peers down the commuter-rail tracks in Roslindale.

A 16-year-old from Roxbury was stabbed to death around 9:30 tonight on the Rte. 28 bus, at Blue Hill Avenue and Harvard Street.

Boston.com reports that the mayor is urging people to use the T tonight for getting around Boston for First Night. The MBTA will also offer free service from 8 pm to 2:30 tonight in honor of NYE. Now if only they would do that every night to save bar-goers from the nightmare of finding a cab at 2 am.

After a few months away from Boston, Jim Kane arrives back at South Station to see an electronic signboard stating the next train to Fitchburg leaves from track 6.

Or if they do, they should never take commuter rail. Alison, our favorite suffering Worcester Line commuter, tweets this morning from aboard the latest train from hell:

Power went out on the train and we're standing by at Back Bay.

Earlier:
Alison is at least 40 minutes late
Alison gets to work two hours late.