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In today's calm before the storm, riders competed to find the Orange Line shuttle bus from farthest away
By adamg on Sun, 08/21/2022 - 10:19pm
Miles Bowman spotted a charter bus from Arkansas turning into Oak Grove today - although Jacklyn may have won today's competition (and so a month's worth of free rides on Orange Line shuttle buses!) with a Golden Gate Legacy bus from the San Francisco area.
Meanwhile, El C reports great satisfaction, at least on a slow weekend day, with the people dispatching buses along the Orange Line route:
Snuck this photo of the Greatest person helping load the OL shuttle to Forest Hills this afternoon. All the people acting as dispatchers are fantastic.
Mayor Wu plans to try to get to work Monday morning via shuttle buses (and we assume a walk over to the Green Line at Back Bay, since the shuttle buses aren't running downtown), has scheduled a press conference at 9:30 a.m. in front of City Hall to discuss how it went.
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Plot twist
Wu is late to/misses the conference.
The Golden Gate Legacy bus
The Golden Gate Legacy bus did originally run for Golden Gate Transit, but it is now owned by a private owner in New York, so really didn't need to travel as far as the Little Rock bus to get here.
I saaw the Golden Gate Bus
I saaw the Golden Gate Bus this morning as I walked from Back Bay.
Is anyone else having ominous preminitions?
That a rapidly approaching series of cascading failures will require these busses to remain indefinitelty?
Its almost like the MBTA is barely one step ahead of the Feds shutting the whole thing down.
And then the buses prove unworkable in Boston traffic
as well as being expensive, so the next step is to give up on the T altogether.
Is that the Cunning Plan?
It wouldn't be
It wouldn't be cunning at all...but it would certainly not be the first time that "gummint is the problem" plutocrats destroyed a system and then found out too late that it was enabling their wealth.
Lucky Star?
My brother saw that at least one Lucky Bus is in the fleet. Now I am wondering if a Fung Wah might resurrect itself, based on the situation…
Post-Fung Wah
A few years back, after Fung Wah shut down, there was a bus service using buses without logos, that had a pick up somewhere back behind Macy's. A representative with a tablet took care of whatever needed to be done at arrival departure times. We assumed this must have been connected to ex-Fung Wah... But we never really figured things out for sure.
One might say
like a phoenix from the ashes?
So far so good
The plan is working. Now every politician will have to have to have their photo taken on a shuttle bus and take credit for this morning's commute. Now if thunderstorms hit this afternoon and commuters get soaked the same politicians will slam the MBTA for not planning for bad weather.
INFO
Were the drivers briefed and tested on road rules in Massachusetts before hitting the road?
Specifically with regard to pedestrians and cyclists?
Are those rules different here
from other states?
Yes
For example, Arkansas restricts cyclists to the right half of the roadway and permits "Idaho stops".
https://bikeleague.org/StateBikeLaws
I saw one in Forest Hills
I saw one in Forest Hills advertising 'Visit Maryland'. That doesn't necessarily mean it's from Maryland but it looked strange to me on a bus in Boston MA.