MBTA says subway lines back to pre-snowpocalypse levels

By adamg on Thu, 03/19/2015 - 7:32am

The MBTA reports that with the addition of some Green Line cars this morning, all four subway lines are now back at their normal car numbers for the first time since Jan. 22. The T reports that Green Line maintenance crews "have been working around the clock to restore service to pre-blizzard levels."

Commuter rail? Well, that's another matter.

Green Line: 146 cars.
Orange Line: 96 cars.
Blue Line: 84 cars.
Red Line: 178 cars.

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Comments

So Bev was right after all,

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 7:49am

So Bev was right after all, 30 days.

Perfect!

By Michael
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 8:51am

Just enough time for some of the pressure to be off Gov. Baker's blue-ribbon panel - if they ever actually even met.

Yup. The blue ribbon panel on

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 2:28pm

Yup. The blue ribbon panel on non daily riders.

Way off topic response here,

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 7:55am

Way off topic response here,
but Adam what's going on with your site? Lately I've been getting audio files about weather ballons. It appears to be an android issue as it doesn't happen on my Windows PC.

Ugh, sorry

By adamg
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 8:23am

I keep trying to smack these things down and they keep popping up. So just on your Android phone? Dumb question: Are the fonts on the headlines of stories serif or sans-serif? I ask because that'll help me track down which template set (and so which ads) you're getting

Thanks for your response.

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 11:30am

Thanks for your response. Sorry I can't answer your question about the fonts since I know practically nothing about recognizing one font from another. All I can tell you is I'm using Dolphin browser if that's of any help.

Serif

By Kaz
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 12:00pm

Serif fonts have little "tips" at the ends of the letters. Sans serif (Latin for without serif) end the letters with blunt edges.

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I've gotten those audio and video files myself

By roadman
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 12:47pm

from time to time. Happens when font is Sans Serif, and happens on both my iPhone (yes, I finally went to the dark side after my last phone cr^pped out) and my Windows PC (running Windows 7).

A sampling of commuter rail alerts

By roadman
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 9:37am

for the Haverhill line this week:

Switch Problems
Signal Problems
Delay due to mechanical issue
Delay due to previous mechanical issue
Freight Train Interference
Amtrak Train Interference

In other words, it sounds like things are indeed getting back to normal.

I'm pretty sure every single

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 9:52am

I'm pretty sure every single one of those things happened this morning.

Yep

By roadman
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 10:31am

All those things have been daily occurrences this week.

I like the "delay due to

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 2:30pm

I like the "delay due to heavy ridership." Well you have heavy ridership bc you haven't put back all of the trains during high commute times. Idiots (a la Napoleon Dynamite:)

At least this week

By roadman
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 3:19pm

they've managed not to use that one on the Haverhill line as of yet. Perhaps the alertmister's "Wheel of Torture" is malfunctioning.

welcome back to normal.

By tape
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 9:40am

naturally, since the subway is now running at "normal levels", a disabled train turned JFK into an unpassable mass of people this morning. normal indeed.

it's fun to watch the board say "Alewife 1 min" for a good solid 15 minutes straight.

Yup normal

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 9:50am

Normal police actions that delay trains for 30 minutes. Normal 200 people standing at Silver Line South Station platform while T jerk sends off a bus that is only 3/4 full.

Yup, the T is back to its normal level of failures. Just when I was getting used to its new normal.

You have to love the twitter poster's profile pic

By issacg
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 10:32am

Follow the link in the original post above - it's my new favorite.

Ⓣhomas the Ⓣank engine

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 12:06pm

He needs a Ⓣ logo photoshopped onto the side of him.

That would be an insult to

By roadman
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 1:47pm

the residents of the Island of Sodor.

Let's have some Olympics!

By Jo
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 11:34am

World class city: No. Not even close.

And if a Garth Brooks concert can cause so much trouble, people can't get taxis at the airport, and this sorry excuse for public transportation, I shudder to think how an additional million people will tax the system.

Amtrak at Porter Station

By BostonDog
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 11:40am

This is mostly off-topic and been happening forever but what's with Red Line announcements that you can switch to Amtrak service at Porter Station? At least not without transferring to another service first. It only started annoying me now for some reason.

Unlikely anyone gets off thinking they can grab an Amtrak but still seems stupid to make an announcement about a non-existent service.

And don't the announcements

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 12:29pm

And don't the announcements at South Station mention the Silver Line, but not Amtrak, the commuter rail, or the intercity bus terminal?

It's the T equivalent

By anon
Thu, 03/19/2015 - 1:14pm

of the sign for Franklin Park Zoo on Newbury Street.

You can get there from this station...by using it to get to another station. Duh.

I know there has to be someone reading this who is in the know.