After months of delays, a multi-use Green Line Extension Community Path branch from central Somerville to East Cambridge opens Saturday.

Another in a string of troubles with the MBTA rode into Central Square early Friday: an electrical fire on an inbound red line train during rush hour.

The MBTA will be sued by the woman hit May 1 by a falling utility box on a Harvard Square subway station platform – a box that had no function since 2013.

The opening of the new multi-use Somerville Community Path extension from central Somerville to East Cambridge has been pushed back for the third time, having been originally slated to open in February, then getting delayed to March or April, and now to June.

Exactly two months after a water-soaked soundproofing ceiling tile nearly fell on an MBTA red line rider, a ceiling utility box “became dislodged” and hit someone Monday. Both incidents took place on the southbound platform of the station at Harvard Square.

Public meetings this week look at a cricket field in West Cambridge, bike lanes and more on Brattle, a building energy-use law, affordable-housing overlay, Starlight Square zoning and Kendall Square T stop and plaza revamp.

If trains and buses seem a little more crowded on trips into and around Boston, it’s not just because service is less frequent. Slowly, riders are returning.

The main entrance at Alewife Station has been closed while crews built a temporary shoring tower to reinforce the station’s roof trusses. A temporary structure allows the MBA to now safely reopen the main entrance and lobby, a spokesperson said.

Public meetings this week look at a Tuesday gunfire incident and gun violence, pump-station plans, real estate transfer fees, budget priorities and more.

Subway riders can check updates on slowed commutes daily on a new MBTA Speed Restriction Tracker. By sheer numbers, the red and green lines are worst.