Between Quincy Center and Quincy Adams, Peter Wilson reports. The Quincy Fire Department is on scene to help with evacuation. WCVB reports the train was stuck for two hours.
Scott H took photos at the scene.
Passengers getting on escape bus.
Meanwhile, Brian reported from the Orange Line around 8:35 a.m.:
Tell people not to bother with the Orange Line. Waited at Stony Brook for 30 mins with no train from either direction.
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...does anyone remember how
By cryosin
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 8:43am
...does anyone remember how yesterday the MBTA was pretending it was going to run today?
Only a matter of degree
By anon
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 8:56am
How is that different from any day?
Can we get The Yeti to push
By jmeltzer
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 8:55am
Can we get The Yeti to push it?
Oh No!
By chaosjake
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 9:29am
I hope M is working from home today...
yes!
By M
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:31am
Thank goodness, I am. I have had like four people check in with me to make sure I wasn't on this stuck train, tho. Happy to hand my stuck-on-a-train-for-two-plus-hours celebrity status to today's poor souls.
Orange Line
By cfp
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 9:45am
I was stuck on the Orange Line today between 7:45 and 9:00 going from Jackson Square to State Street. Apparently, there was a switch problem at Forrest Hills, so they decided to stop all trains while they fixed it.
No service betw Oak Grove and Sullivan
By FenRes
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:14am
Fot the rest of the day, also Red Line betw Braintree and JFK.
Bad News Comes in Threes
By anon
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:07am
Strike one Passengers kick out windows in Quincy station to rescue trapped passengers
Strike two Police and Fire rescue trapped passengers on frozen red line trains
Strike three the Quincy parking garage on top of the subway line was declared unsafe because of structural damage. It now has snow drifts over ten feet that I can see from my condo. I wonder if anyone has checked to make sure the top level is safe and when it melts the station will have to be evacuated because the water will come pouring down on passengers and the electrical equipment in the stores and in the station.
Orange Line
By cybah
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:09am
Wow they aren't even going to try to resume service this afternoon like they said they would. Real glad I didn't head into work.
I hope the Ashmont train is
By anon
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:26am
I hope the Ashmont train is working later :-/
Great time to find out
By rb
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 11:41am
That the T hasn't invested in snow removal equipment for 40 years.
This crisis must not be wasted.
By issacg
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 1:37pm
Ok - so now there are how many thousands of people who came in on the Red Line from points south who are going to be looking for alternative ways home? This is totally unacceptable.
We have to find a way to keep this misery in the forefront of minds on Beacon Hill - these disasters must not be allowed to melt away from Legislator's minds when the snow finally starts to melt. The General Court must fix the financing debacle it created (idea here), and it must be held accountable for doing so.
As I suggested elsewhere, we need some kind of accounting of what this unreliability is costing our local economy. It is only when we have reliable evidence of the hundreds of millions of dollars economic activity that were forfeited because the T couldn't run effectively for so many days in this one winter, that the hundreds of millions of dollars needed for immediate fixes (and the billions needed to resurrect this decrepit system) will be allocated.
We have to find a way to keep
By Scratchie
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 1:41pm
Good luck with that. Unless there's a serious chance of a legislator losing their seat to a challenger who actually will allocate the billions of dollars needed to fix the T, they're going to forget about this crisis by a week from tomorrow.
Cut plowing funds for Western MA
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 2:16pm
If our legislators weren't so damn nice about hurricane damage and other ways to rub Western and Central MA noses in their dependence on us, we might have better funding for the T.
Yeah, that's really the problem here.
By Whurlz
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 3:04pm
Too much plowing in Western Mass. *eyeroll*
Well, it is the problem
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 3:10pm
It is most certainly the problem when Western MA legislators bray loudly about "not subsidizing Boston" when they block MBTA funding.
It is the problem when the cost of Western MA road work, including plowing, is substantially more costly per person served than funding the MBTA is.
It is the problem when a small population with a lot of costly roads to maintain complains about subsidizing urban areas when their communities are the ones that are, in fact, subsidized by Eastern MA.
So, yes, it is the problem.
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By Whurlz
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 4:22pm
replied to wrong comment, deleted
What is it about W Mass?
By merlinmurph
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 3:08pm
Man, you really have a hair across your ass when W Mass ever gets mentioned.
Instead of whining, I suggest getting your tax dollars worth, grab your bike and ride out there sometime. I suggest Franklin County, riding in Deerfield, Ashfield, Colrain, Leyden, Heath, Conway, cross into VT, etc. Basically, do a north/south route staying west of I-91. One ride and your whole outlook about W Mass will change. Drop dead gorgeous riding, and if you ride the right roads, you'll count the cars on one hand in a 5-hour ride.
After the ride, stop at the People's Pint in Greenfield for brews and a bite.
Bring your climbing legs.
The MBTA is in failure due to Western and Central MA Politicians
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 3:15pm
Look it up.
Who was saying "we can't subsidize Boston" again, then came around, hand out, for repair money after Irene?
Which politicians decided to fuck over the MBTA while braying to their subusidized constituents about it?
THEY STARTED IT! Our reps are just too nice to rub their damn noses in consequences for playing this stupid regional game by showing them what "subsidized" really means. Meanwhile, we see the MBTA fail more by the day.
THE MBTA IS IN FAILURE DUE TO THIS BULLSHIT.
Got it?
(and, yes, I've done plenty of riding out that way, with my climbing legs. Doesn't make up for not being able to get to work, does it?)
I agree
By Whurlz
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 4:22pm
that complaining about subsidizing "others" is always a problem. Pitting one part of the state against the other is a problem. But you're falling into that trap, too. OK, so "THEY" started it, you say. That doesn't make it any more right to suggest that every part of the state should only access state services in a proportionate degree to their population or tax revenue they produce. It doesn't work like that.
I'll admit to living outside route 495, though not quite Central and definitely not Western MA. But not everybody out here in the hinterlands supports the politicians of whom you speak. We don't insist that only our road gets plowed, and not all those other roads far away. Many of us use the T often and don't mind paying for it. Even if we don't use it, many of us understand that state transportation issues are shared, statewide. I'd gladly pay more for the T because it's obviously underfunded and I understand that our needs are all interconnected. That's why Eastern Mass families send their kids out to UMass. Colleges, businesses, and hospitals in the Boston area serve the whole state, as do colleges, a thriving biotech industry, and other businesses in the greater Worcester area and beyond.
And yeah, OK, I'm clearly being oversensitive here. But dammit, we need to get to work, too. Don't pit "your" T against "my" roads. They both belong to all of us.
They started it
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 4:32pm
They pit their roads against our public transit.
They need to suffer the consequences of that divisive bullshit, not be rewarded for it.
Then we can sing kumbaya and all that.
I posted this strategy a few
By anon
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 2:59pm
I posted this strategy a few days ago as one possible way to get funding the T on the pols' radar.
What a joke of a
By anon
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:38am
What a joke of a transportation system
Joke is on you
By John Costello
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 1:36pm
You're paying for it.
And you're not?
By lbb
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 1:53pm
And you're not?
This is unacceptable!
By Charlaton Baker
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 3:35pm
This is unacceptable!
This aggression will not
By Scratchie
Mon, 02/09/2015 - 4:40pm
This aggression will not stand, man.
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