Passengers on an outbound Orange Line train busted out windows when the train filled with smoke and the doors wouldn't open shortly before 5 p.m.
WBZ reports three people were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
The train driver reported a "pop" and some sparks as his train entered the station; possibly due to a motor sparking and setting trash on the tracks on fire.
Commuter-rail and Amtrak service through Back Bay was also halted. Buses that normally stop at Back Bay are being diverted to Copley Square.
The T set up shuttle-bus service between Jackson Square and Copley Square.
Uber pricing went into overdrive. And then some.
The Orange Line halt came just as the Red Line was having its own meltdown.
On Sunday, Red Line service was halted when a trash fire sent smoke into South Station.
This coming Saturday, the T is planning a drill at Alewife station involving smoke filling a subway tunnel and station.
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The CR was shut down b/c of
By anon
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 11:19am
The CR was shut down b/c of yesterday as well as Amtrak. So yes my $200plus monthly fare (to go 6 miles to Rozzie but that is another story) was affected as were many others.
You think they are exclusive?
By anon
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 11:24am
They are not.
I suppose you keep a car at North Station so you can drive someplace without using the subway?
Regardless
By bosguy22
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 12:27pm
"All this money" you pay doesn't even begin to cover the annual T budget. You're commute is being subsidized by your fellow taxpayers. The 2015 MBTA budget was almost $2 billion. "all that money" you pay made up about 30% of that. The majority of the money that paid for your ride to/from (40%) was from a dedicated sales tax. Do I want the T to run properly? Of course, but it's not as easy as saying "I pay a lot of money, I want my train to be there on time".
I have some bad news for you
By erik g
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 1:21pm
about the provenance of the funding for the state's road network.
I, and many others, are also
By anon
Fri, 10/28/2016 - 7:59am
I, and many others, are also subsidizing my fellow taxpayers who drive on the roads for their commute and I don't drive. Your point?
perhaps not perfection
By Scumquistador
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 4:41am
but perhaps not daily failures, either
Not daily failures
By roadman
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 10:27am
Try hourly failures. Alerts I've received (and still active) since I got into the office at 9 am:
Orange Line track failure near Wellington
Green Line signal problems at Reservoir
Shuttle buses on Green Line C branch between Coolidge Corner and Cleveland Circle
Lets cut police budgets like the T is being cut
By anon
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 9:42am
No new vehicles for decades.
Retirement of people or huge layoffs
Destruction of the union or else.
I'm sure you would be up for that sort of "reform", Fishy.
Video if you missed it
By Scauma
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 8:41am
http://m.worldstarhiphop.com/apple/video.php?v=wsh...
Thanks but
By anon
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 10:08am
Adam posted a link to this video in the first sentence of his story.
My bad
By Scauma
Fri, 10/28/2016 - 8:55am
I saw the video before I came to uhub and saw the article
It also made the international news
By GM
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 11:22am
I knew it was pretty bad if it made the UK's Daily Mail site:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-387691...
I can understand how people freaked with all that smoke. Would have been the same way. The conductors should have given instructions on how to evacuate.
What conductors?
By roadman
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 2:05pm
You had one operator that had to deal with a sudden failure, reporting that sudden failure, and requesting assistance b/c the smoke - to dispatch, then having to go through the train and try to manually open the doors that were on the station platform. Given all that, I'd forgive them for not dropping all that in order to immediately make announcements to the passengers.
Several people have commented about "this is what happens when you lose the janitors." I'd say "this is what happens when you lose the second person on trains".
Why didn't they open the
By Ryan
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 1:06pm
Why didn't they open the doors to the platform?
The train was not entirely in the station
By roadman
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 2:04pm
therefore, they could not automatically open the doors. As I noted in another post, the sole operator of the train had to go from car to car to manually open those doors that were aligned with the platform.
Note that automatically opening the doors would have risked people falling, or climbing down, on to the track bed. Not a good idea, especially with a 600 volt third rail present.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAwbrOJMKEc[/youtube]
The third rail is on the
By Ryan
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 2:12pm
The third rail is on the opposite side of the tracks from the platform, right? It is at every station I've cared to look at, probably as a safety measure. So if they opened the platform side, there's no reason for anyone to go around to the third rail side. The danger is trivial, and the potential for saving lives is huge (since they had no way of knowing how serious the fire would be at that time).
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