Remember the incident spotted by Fabulously Out There in which it appeared that a woman injured herself in a fall down crumbling stairs at the State Street MBTA stop? Well, it seems that the MBTA got on that business right quick: "The stairs were FIXED this morning. Brand slapping new with the slip proof yellow strip and all!!!! Now, while they might have planned to fix the stairs for as long as I have lived here (2.5 years) and while the stairs might have looked like this even longer , I find the timing SUSPECT to say the least."

It just goes to show that the "See Something, Say Something" motto should apply to T conditions and not just matters of public safety. However (tiny little note of Bostonist Devil's Advocate), we wish that the MBTA had fixed the stairs long before anyone got hurt. How does an inspector miss a crumbling stairway?

Image inside the State Street stop by BranchDesign from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr.