London
God, that "Commuter-rail chaos" item below this on the home page sure looks pretty trivial right now.
Comments from Boston-area bloggers on London here (that page'll update every two hours or so as new comments come in). Among them is this post by Randolph:
I sat on an outbound train at the Harvard T station this morning, wondering if our train was ever going to move again and listening to the repeated announcement encouraging me to report any "suspicious" activity. At some point, I decided to pack up the book I'd been reading and head for the world above. As I left the station, I noticed an unusual number of police traveling down Mass Ave but thought nothing of it. ...
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All the fuzz
The cops were probably responding to the Green Line derailment at Arlington: http://jemimap.ficml.org/wordpress/2005/07/07/when...
everything seemed ordinary to me this morning...
I boarded the Fitchburg Line inbound at Porter Square at 10:05 this morning for the usual 11-minute ride to North Station. Other than the train being a minute or two late, nothing looked or felt unusual to me. If we were on high alert, it wasn't evident.