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.

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

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.

Channel 4: Amtrak train kills one in Hyde Park.

When Cleary Squared heard the call on a scannner summoning a couple of fire companies down to the Hyde Park commuter-rail station, he headed down to see what was up:

... The Boston Police that were there spotted us from the Track 3 ramp and ordered us to move away. A few minutes later an officer taped up both the stairs and the ramps to both sides of Hyde Park Station to get rid of "gawkers". When he returned from his duty, the officer told the three of us, "Say a prayer." ...

And that's all it is. Jack Croww reports that for his $250 a month, he gets to ride in a car with a door that wouldn't open more than nine inches.

Round-up of complaints about MBCR service yesterday.

The tweets are pouring in: Hour-long waits on commuter rail; piss-poor plowing around Ashmont station, inaccurate advisories. All leading to:

i hear the CIA is looking into a new torture technique - commuting on the MBTA

Alison, who was two hours late one day last week due to problems on the Worcester line, tweets this morning that her train is already 40 minutes late and that T workers are blaming CSX.