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If you haven't already fled, there are problems on Green and Red

Track is whack at Packards Corner, so the T is hauling B Line passengers between there and Washington Street by bus. On the Red Line, there's a dead train just moldering somewhere on the tracks between JFK/UMass and Braintree.

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is anyone keeping score at these breakdowns? I feel like I wanna start tracking these on a calendar since it's gotten so bad. It's almost daily now.

(now im irked that I recently purged my "T-Alerts" folder in my email.. It had over 4000 messages in it. I could have parsed the folder for data!)

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I'd love to see this too. I'm trying to imagine how to graphically represent the history of T fuckups. Like a stacked line graph with colors for the different lines, maybe, but it would also be nice to have a weighting factor for how severe the fuckup is.

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Well according to quick glance on Uhub using "the T" tag.. since Nov 1, it's had some service related issue on any mode of transport 18 times. Of course we had a few days with multiple failures and days with none. But on average, at a glance, about once or two every other day.

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UHub posts only highlight the serious MBTA events. Many "minor" delays and cancellations, such as the ongoing and now-routine delays "due to train traffic/interference" on Haverhill/Reading-line commuter rail trains never make it here.

As such, UHub MBTA posts, as useful (and entertaining) as they are, aren't really a good metric to measure total delays and breakdowns system wide.

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But 18 is about one every day :-) That's still alot.. I think that was my point

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but it's not granular enough to show day by day issues. Just an overall picture. Sure if service fails for 2 hours in a 24 hour period, it's not going to effect these charts all that much. Of course 89% isn't all that great..

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i agree. A year ago, there was so much talk about how unreliable the T service was, but it's way worse now than it was then, since breakdowns and major delays are pretty much daily now. It's frustrating and infuriating not to know when and if you will arrive at your destination.

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Orange Line didn't "officially" have problems this morning, but it was even more crowded than usual, and trains were running every 8-10 minutes instead of the advertised 6 minute headways. Operator even made an announcement apologizing for the crowding, saying trains were delayed.

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Which was declared over by @MBTA a little before 7.

And then an inbound train from Forest Hills around 8:30 was completely packed by the time it got to Stony Brook. Just the new normal, perhaps?

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I never even saw that then, as I don't get alerts before 7. And my experience was around 8!

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"Track is whack." Thank you - I needed that!

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The T spent a few days last week tearing up the rubber crossing at Comm and Washington on the, replacing it with no doubt pot-hole magnet paving material. (Can I get a "what?!?") Is this what is going on at Packard's Corner? Or did they decide that whatever caused the train to derail last night at Lake St actually happened at Packard's?

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...it's out for the rest of the day. Aaah, fun and games on the B line!

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