At 8:16 p.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays of up to 30 minutes due to a downed tree on the tracks near Quincy Center. At 8:34 p.m., the T reported bustitution between North Quincy and Quincy Center due to the Kilmerian obstruction. At 9:19 p.m., the T reported it had extended the shuttle service all the way to Braintree. As of 10:15 p.m., the T was reporting the Braintree branch was still blocked by that darned tree.

A roving UHub photographer reports he rode the Red Line from downtown all the way down to Braintree this afternoon across from a woman holding two signs - the one in the photo above and the one behind it, that read "Following Jesus to the End." He adds:

She was surprisingly normal. Sat there quietly until pulling into Braintree and the signs slipped out of her hands and hit my foot. "Oh my goodness. Forgive me." We both laughed.

This morning, the day after the MBTA announced the end of slow zones on the Blue Line (if not the end of dead trains and malfunctioning signals, the Red Line has turned into a swampy morass of not-getting-anywhere-fast. Read more.

There were some signal issues at Braintree tonight that were bad enough the T rustled up some buses to run between there and Quincy Adams, but the T assures us the signals are working again.

Red Line woes just never end. The MBTA reports delays of up to 20 minutes on the Red Line because not one, but two trains had to be pulled from service at Braintree on account of being deceased.

The MBTA reports what it says are 15-minute delays on the Red Line out of Braintree due to a deceased train at North Quincy. Riders, however, report 15 minutes in MBTA time is more like a half hour to an hour in real time. Read more.

A man from Staten Island and six Boston-area men were arrested today on money-laundering and cocaine-distribution charges based in part on evidence obtained by a group of FBI agents and informants posing as their own Latin American cocaine-money laundering ring, according to documents unsealed in Boston federal court today. Read more.

NBC Boston reports a woman managed to drive from the South Shore Plaza parking garage across what is normally a pedestrian bridge onto the mall's second level. Read more.

NBC Boston has video of a Red Line train that took off at the Braintree yard and then just kept on going through Braintree station on May 30. Read more.

John Adams's dashcam captured the fire that erupted in a crash on Rte. 3 northbound in Braintree this morning. Kevin Brennan's copter video shows at least four vehicles involved. Read more.