They're the ones going after litterbugs.

Bobbob hasn't taken the T regularly for three years now, so wonders if the following sight is unusual:

... [T]here were two very buff, swat-team style cops with large guns -- I don't know my guns, but this sure wasn't a handgun, it extended about the length of his torso. Is this a new thing? Have there been military style police riding the rails for a while now? I opted to take the next train but the other passengers seemed less surprised.

Amazingly, JP Beat got a photo of two T SWATters at Back Bay station this morning, and they don't look like they're about to order him to the ground and rip the memory card out of his camera.

Maybe they were too busy looking for this evil dude.

Lys wonders why the Red Line seems so depressed these days while the Green Line is positively jaunty:

... I was coming back from Central, on the Red line, and I noticed how many people riding back looked as miserable as I did. I saw two different women crying, and everyone just seemed to be lost in their own tired and negative thoughts. Maybe the stress of Cambridge, with Harvard and MIT right there, is too much for the fragile human psyche to handle. As I looked around the train, no one was making eye contact, and shoes, fingernails, and blank space were very popular.

I get off at Park Street and switch to the Green line, and the tone is much more peppy. The train fills up with tired but happy students for BU and BC, and people are actually laughing! I am trying to maintain a level of melancholy, but it is difficult with all these wise-ass students around. ...

If somebody ever made a model-train layout of the Mattapan Line, one of the stops would look just like this.

Anali reports that between South Station and Wollaston yesterday afternoon, she passed three different couples in various stages of arguing:

... When I got out at Wollaston, there was another couple at the entrance talking loudly. But they could have just been playing around, because they seemed to be sort of wrestling with each other. ...

Zolok reports it wasn't just MBTA cops searching cars today - TSA agents were in the house as well:

... This is the third time since January that I've seen high profile security swarming the Alewife Red Line. ...

Red Line service halted by Longfellow trash fire.

On the Red Line at JFK/UMass (note to Herald: Trolleys don't run on that part of the Red Line).

Spaz_i_mota wonders about the smelly guy now inhabiting the platform at Davis station:

... I'm not looking for snide remarks, its obvious he is homeless, but to be honest, and potentially non-pc, the smell of urine is really potent down there. I have noticed that he keeps to himself and really doesn't interact with anyone.

I'm not expecting someone, to offer him a place to shower, but how does this get addressed in terms of the MBTA? Is it allowed as long as he gets through the gates? ...

At first, Marcy thought the thing on the inbound side of the Red Line at South Station was a gray mitten. Then she realized it was a dead rat. Today, she reports on RatWatch, Day 11.