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Dead train at Haymarket? Riders say: Oh, fark it
By adamg on Mon, 04/24/2023 - 10:30am
The deceased train. Photo by Peppamint Patty.
The T spent all that money on brand-new Orange Line cars and yet, here we are this morning with a dead brand-new Orange Line train at Haymarket gumming up the works.
At 10:23 a.m., Peppamint Patty reported from the platform, just a few feet away from the dead train:
You’d think that leaving Dorchester before 8:30am you’d be able to make it to Charlestown for a 10:00am meeting. You’d be dead wrong if you were taking the @MBTA today. In fact, you’d still be standing on the orange line in Haymarket station still.
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Comments
Will that be enough to bring
Will that be enough to bring the head of maintenance in from his Chicago home?
What will it take for Beacon
What will it take for Beacon Hill to be held accountable for this failure.
He'll be in as soon as he's
He'll be in as soon as he's figured out where "Boston" is and how to get there.
Get a Horse
They have been used successfully for over 5,000 years.
Used and abused.
Used and abused.
As all of my fellow daily
As all of my fellow daily Orange Line riders will agree, this ain't nothing new. Fact that almost daily something is not working on the trains and/or individual cars. The fancy computer screens inside the trains that tell you where you are are shut down and black, the ticker-tape sign on the ceilings of each car shut down and black, no seats available so riders are now protesting by sittign and or sleeping on top of the consoles inside each car (despite the hard ridges on top of the consoles that designers thought would deter seasoned riders), etc. Slow as molasses.
If a train gets stuck for an
If a train gets stuck for an hour, do they have any way of turning off the horrible beeping?