Some idiot sure made his mark; shorted out the Red Line at Park

By adamg on Sun, 10/22/2023 - 12:27pm

The MBTA reports some yahoo threw something on the tracks at Park Street that came into contact with the third rail around 7 a.m., shorting out the system and forcing the T to run shuttle buses between Harvard and Broadway until a maintenance crew could undo the damage. Service resumed around 8:20 a.m.

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As A Former Sunday Morning Red Line Rider....

By John Costello on Sun, 10/22/2023 - 1:14pm.

...on the way to their make ends meet second retail job.

Tie this person to the kinetic sculpture at Kendall and let all affected bang the hammer into their head.

Working Sunday sucks. Making people late on a cold morning when nearly everyone else is sleeping in, burn in hell.

Let’s be honest, if it wasn’t

By anon on Sun, 10/22/2023 - 1:24pm.

Let’s be honest, if it wasn’t this knucklehead it would have been a “signal problem” or some other standard issue in mbtas bag of why their service blows

Maybe...

By lbb on Mon, 10/23/2023 - 9:30am.

...let's let the person who actually rides the Red Line every Sunday morning be the judge of that.

Good idea

By John z on Sun, 10/22/2023 - 4:22pm.

I love the kinetic sculpture idea!

Agree

By TiminSouthie on Mon, 10/23/2023 - 8:02am.

The T has enough issues without some muppet throwing liquid on the 3rd rail and shorting the whole thing for one of the most heavily utilized parts of the line. Doing it on Sunday morning adds insult to injury.

I appreciate the creative accountability. My idea was to tie him to a pole in Boylston and make him listen to the shrieking from the rails - 1 hour for every passenger he inconvenienced.