Work slowdown by T workers?
By adamg - Tue, 09/23/2008 - 7:44am.
Alecia, who missed an audition thanks to late trains and broken buses, reports on a conversation she overheard last night between a bus driver and a friend, both apparently unaware she was still on the bus:
... "They're trying to organize a work slowdown," he said, "instead of a strike."
"Yeah?" his friend nodded.
"Yeah. You know: make sure everyone pays; don't depart until all the passengers are behind the line; drive below the speed limit--all to make everything run behind schedule." ...
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My God
A Boston where MBTA personnel are surly, unhelpful and slow? I can't even picture it!
Useless effort
To have any impact, we'd have to notice the difference.
Organize?
Not only is organizing mean doing work (violating the work slow down idea), it takes, actual, you know, ability to be organized and get organized.
I wouldn't sweat it. Their jobs are designed to prevent this anyway.
Many of my 501 drivers
Already do all of the above-mentioned things.
Work to Rule rules
Hooray for rulebook slowdowns! Though it's so sad to consider.
Letter from MBTA
Letter from MBTA management,
Dear transit workers,
It has come to my attention that you are now following the rules we have imposed upon you. This is a matter that concerns us deeply as your following the rules is affecting the commute of starving actors who are arriving to auditions late due to your following of the stated rules in your handbooks. Management demands that you follow these new rules:
1) Forget about collecting fares, instead let everyone in for free.
2) No need to wait for people to get on the train, stay for 15 seconds max at each stop, at which point hit the gas as hard as you can. If there is someone in front of the bus unloading their bike by all means run them over, bikes compete with out bottom line anyway.
3) Take every rule we give you and do the opposite, we have had great success in your ignoring our be polite to patrons rule, please continue in that trend.
Yours in transit,
MBTA Management
Park street red line
I think there's a slowdown everytime the southbound red line trains enter park street at about 2 MPH.
this also explains the slowness on the redline
In the middle of a tunnel between Downtown Crossing and Park Street, when there hadn't been a train in 15 minutes, we inexplicably came to a stop and sat for 5 minutes with no announcement as to why.
At Park, we paused with the doors open for another full 5 minutes.
At Porter, the train entered the station, stopped, and went nowhere for 2-3 minutes. The train then slowly backed up 15-20 feet, then opened its doors. Ugh.