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When might be a bad time for an overhead wire to fall onto the Riverside Line?
By adamg on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 5:15pm
If you guessed Friday afternoon rush hour, you win! Unlike the people now stuck waiting for shuttle buses to get them around the downed wire at Newton Centre, who lose.
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I experienced this tonight
At the Government Center Station we did not know what was going on. It was a 2-hour trip, one hour from GC to Reservoir, and another hour from Reservoir to Riverside. Remember, the MBTA shut donw the above-ground part of the line for the summer of 2007 to overhaul the electrical service.
I imagine there will be a lot of comments once Adam gets a chance to process them all.
2007 overhaul by same whiz as tunnel lights?
The stuff-falls-down experts from the big dig might have participated in the 2007 electrical overhaul! Galvanic corrosion had to be rediscovered.
The missus was on the D Line
The missus was on the D Line outbound at Chestnut Hill when power died a bit before 5. After a while they had everyone walk to Rt 9 to wait for a bus, which took about 40 minutes to arrive. She got home at 6:30, about an hour and 15 minutes later than usual.
Renewed disgust for the Green Line
I'm not even sure I can abridge the string of curses that crossed my mind between 5:30 and 7:15, when I finally got to Reservoir, and could snag a bus across to Cambridge. Because after that blind trek from Woodland to Reservoir via a shuttle, there was no blazing way I was getting back on a green line anything for the rest of the day.
Calling the MBTA, useless. The MBTA sign board updates, bland and misleading. The shuttle bus driver, just as clueless as the rest of us as to what was going on.
Fuckyouverymuch green line for making my commute home on a Friday turn into a grumbling 3x longer than necessary pilgrimage.
Adam, do you know if there is
Adam, do you know if there is ever any followup by the T after incidents such as this or the Blue Line wire problem the other day? That is, an internal investigation as to what cause the problem, other than "an accident"? Incidents such as this are never "accidents". A part either wore out or failed or was not installed correctly.
Wires coming down can be
Wires coming down can be accidents. Trees and/or wind can do it.
You're right, of course. I
You're right, of course.
I should have qualified by observation by referring to cases where the cause was mechanical and not an act of nature.