Cold, Hot and Bothered, on Fire

Cooling fans in T stations! Hooray! Next step: Febreeze. In today's Globe, Mac Daniel reports that the MBTA will start installing "special cooling fans"* in T stations across its service area this month. They're even going to put misting fans at a few of the busier bus hubs. Check out the Globe's map to see if your favorite subterranean stank hole is on the list!

Meanwhile, the Herald is totally harshing our T lovin’ buzz with its fronT page sTory about how much everybody haTes the T, especially iTs rude aTTendanTs. Hey, buster — you’d be cranky, too if you had spend 7.5 hours a day working in a smelly, 100-degree cave of grossness. The part about how a passenger asked an employee for help with a Charlie Card only to be told, “I really can’t. I just did my nails” never gets old though.

You know the joke, starts out "The Orange Line is so hot." Followed with "How hot is it?" And here's the punch line: "On fire, actually." Fox 25 reports that nearing the end of service last night an Orange Line train was taken out of service after a small fire erupted in Downtown Crossing at 1 a.m. Panels below a train car caught fire and caused some billowing dark smoke to fill the station. Passengers all got off safely, but the video is worth watching just for the colorful interviews given by the types of characters who might stick around Downtown Crossing so they can appear on Fox the next morning.

*not to be confused with stinky hot, sweaty, drunk, hopelessly lost Red Sox Fans on the T, which are bogus.

Post contributed by Kristin MacDougall