The scene on the southbound Red Line platform at Park Street this afternoon: Will the sandbags hold back the water?
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The scene on the southbound Red Line platform at Park Street this afternoon: Will the sandbags hold back the water?
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I like your Universal Glub
By anon
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 4:31pm
I like your Universal Glub heading!! If you put in a new system with the duck boats or whatever, you should always do this heading too. Perhaps call it the "Glub alert" or something like that.
Yikes!
By Lecil
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 4:36pm
This looks seriously dangerous. I don't like that platform as it is (yes, yes, I one of those paranoid folk who cling to the wall), and now the narrowed bit is all wet.
Wall Huggers Unite
By BlackKat
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 4:45pm
Don't worry. I'm just as bad as you are.
Harvard Square
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 4:58pm
I didn't get a pic, but it isn't doing much better in places. Even the inbound platform is shower to shower. I was wondering what happens if it leaks onto the 3rd rail from a ceiling?
Absolutely nothing
By Arborway
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 5:14pm
It rains on the 3rd rail at Green St. all the time.
Last night Copley inbound was
By anon
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 5:29pm
Last night Copley inbound was pouring water (and raw sewage, from the odor) down the open pit from the western staircase into the station and across the tracks.
Shunt 3rd rail?
By MadMax
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 5:29pm
Short the big voltage big current 3rd rail to ground? Wow, I wouldn't want to see that in person.
Third rail
By Arborway
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 10:58pm
The Red and Orange lines both have extended sections of above-ground 3rd rail fully exposed to the elements year round. The only weather-related problem that tends to come up is ice. But the T has third rail heaters to help deal with that, and runs empty trains back and forth after hours during particularly nasty weather to keep it from building up.
That being said... I really wouldn't want to be chilling around the track pit in this weather. Not that it's a fun place to be on a good day, but any current leakage would probably make itself quite evident.
worse than yesterday
By anon
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 5:54pm
The sandbags were holding back the tide yesterday afternoon. That looks seriously dangerous. Drunks falling on the tracks without the benefit of slippery floors!
this seems new to me
By anon
Tue, 03/30/2010 - 8:43pm
I dont remember it ever being like this anytime before the first rain storm
I dig the Rube Goldberg drainage systems they whip up.