An electrical cable fire at Downtown Crossing shorted out both the Red and Orange lines at Downtown Crossing shortly before 8:20 a.m., so with the Green Line also down for the count due to repairs, the only line running into downtown for a good part of the morning was the Blue Line.
The Boston Fire Department arrived at Downtown Crossing to investigate smoke in the station.
The T reported at 10:47 that the Orange Line was back to the new normal, though, followed by the Red Line at 10:51.
It was so bad the T began extending the Green Line shuttle buses that end at Copley Square to North Station.
Line at Central Square for a ride into Boston, by a roving UHub photographer:
One Red Line commuter reports he got on a shuttle bus only to be kicked off at Broadway - where a T official insisted he pay again.
Handmaid reports Orange Line problems started even earlier, but not because of anything going on at DTX:
It's a nightmare on the T today. Took 75 min from Forest Hills to Longwood at 7am. The 7am OL outta FH went out of service because someone had taken a bowel movement on one of the cars. This is why we can't have halfway decent things that work.
Go Bird adds:
I didn’t have it quite that bad, but waited about 20 minutes for an OL at Green when the power issues started and then had to take a #1 bus that was stuffed with 70 people in full snow gear.
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How will the City Hall MBTA
By Rwgfy
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 10:47am
How will the City Hall MBTA commuters get to work?
Uh ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 11:16am
Like everyone else does?
That's a low information fail
By Waquiot
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 12:58pm
The question is how do the employees at the State Transportation Building get to work. Or the T folk on High Street. Are they still at High Street?
If they are DOT
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 2:42pm
They work from home 3 days a week, plus when the T fails.
The Herald gave us a reminder today
By Waquiot
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 10:46pm
Of the time top managers at the T weren't coming in at all.
The article was about the severance the departed received.
What I would like to see
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 1:23pm
Every T manager should be assigned a commute from a random location within the system, to be made entirely by using the system, at least once a month.
They should be penalized if they are late arriving, and every February should be "complete the assignment in a wheelchair" month.
Maybe the penalty for late arrival could be waived if they submitted a full accounting of their failure to arrive on time, and what they planned to do about fixing the system that caused it.
I wonder if this would expose the slackers to their own handiwork?
Almost a shame
By Michael
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 11:26am
That Charlie Baker didn't stick around to see the almost-total culmination of his grand vision
On the plus side
By dan r
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 11:30am
At least every college has massive empty shuttle buses blocking traffic everywhere that they don’t let the serfs ride, since god forbid one of their undergrads should walk somewhere.
I believe I have given up on the T for today, try again tomorrow
By handmaid
Tue, 01/16/2024 - 11:49am
Unless it is pouring rain when I leave work tonight, I'm gonna walk the 3 miles home. Bet I get there in under an hour. Of course weather prediction is for dropping temps so icy walks will be part of our joy later today. Glad I have my spiked boots on today, especially after almost taking a header on an unshovelled walk at FH this morning, two hours after opening time.
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