Where's Waldo? Not getting on the Red Line at Park Street, that's for sure. Photo by Shumita Basu.
The T's now acknowledging that a dead train at JFK/UMass means "severe" delays. As in 30 and 45-minute delays.
UPDATE, 5:30 p.m. Problems persist - The Braintree-bound are being told to take any train they can jam into to JFK for a shuttle bus.
At South Station, Kate Birney reports:
just got pulled off braintree to alewife & routed to an ashmont car that’s not moving!
Erica Mattison adds:
Chaotic, packed Braintree Red Line becomes chaotic, packed Ashmont train. "Ugh" by conductor on loudspeaker says it all.
Mark Sauter advises:
Passengers close to rioting.
Jeremy Ackman captured the scene at JFK/UMass around 5:45 p.m.:
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Just heard about that on
By roadman
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 4:46pm
WBZ Radio. Must be really bad delays if it made the traffic report.
Red Curse
By Markk02474
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 4:55pm
Imagine how blessed we would feel if trouble in the tunnel only occurred every 28 days, rather than so frequently and unpredictable in severity and duration.
Stay classy, dude.
By Scratchie
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:05pm
Stay classy, dude.
Um, yeah, just don't go there
By Hyde_Parker
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:11pm
Um, yeah, just don't go there.
Huh?
By JJ_UTEP
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 9:23pm
I feel like I'm missing something on that guy's comment. Can you explain?
Read the whole thing....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 11:26pm
... title and all -- and then think a bit.
Or don't.
By Scratchie
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 9:44am
Or don't.
I finally just got it...!
By BostonUrbEx
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 10:10am
I wish I didn't try to figure it out.
Should have listened to me,
By Scratchie
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 10:22am
Should have listened to me, bro!
PS: How about that "ignore" button, Adam?
I'd settle for a "downvote" button
By BikerGeek
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 4:32pm
How about a "downvote" button à la Reddit? Comments that score sufficiently low get "buried" or collapsed so they're not immediately readable.
Who on earth....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 8:03pm
... uprated this guy's comment?
OMG - I'm so dense
By Nancy
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 10:31am
I can't believe it took me half a day to understand that comment. I should hand in my woman card immediately. Since this is a family show, I will keep the jokes running through my head to myself.
My name is Nancy and I upvoted this comment.
So, when they catch and unmask
By roadman
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:13pm
the evil monster, will it be Jim Kerasiotes?
Just look at the sighs of
By Saul
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:13pm
Just look at the sighs of relief on the faces of those scores of commuters, knowing that the T cops a few stations away have assured them that they are all explosive-free. I bet each and every one of those commuters would easily tolerate a 30-minute delay, every day, to be safe in such knowledge.
What Are You Saying?
By anon
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:19pm
That T Police on the Blue Line caused a delay on the Red Line? Or that they should stop what they're doing at Aquarium to push a train into Park?
That if the same amount of
By Saul
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:36pm
That if the same amount of money thrown at ineffective countermeasures against the terrorist bogeyman were spent on, you know, infrastructure, we wouldn't have daily breakdowns of 40-year-old subway cars.
But clearly my sarcasm escaped you.
I think he's saying that if
By anon
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:43pm
I think he's saying that if the T police could be trained to repair trains the T would run better.
where's the bicycle babe super hero from yesterday
By anon
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:26pm
She pedaled down the tracks faster than a speeding locomotive to save the pit bull in distress where is she today when thousands of commuters need her to pedal them home
Holy Crap
By anon
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 5:33pm
Delays of this magnitude should be unacceptable, not commonplace.
And we want to host the
By anon
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 6:23pm
And we want to host the Olympics....
Right?
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 8:15pm
Like, we should keep trolling Romney and all the other idiots with too much money and not enough attention on this. Then, have some kind of ceremony where we invite them to announce their plans to the public, then we just throw pies at them.
As for the Red Line, SHUT IT DOWN. Gordon Ramsay wouldn't abide this if he were in charge. Tell everybody to use their fare money to buy a Smart Car and build a dozen parking garages for them. Disabled folks can take Uber, with a private contractor providing a service previously offered by the government.
Better yet, offer every big employer downtown a tax break for letting their employees work X hours a year at home.
Commuter rail as alternative
By Matthew
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 7:13pm
I know this comment is a bit late, but, if anyone is headed to JFK, Quincy Center or Braintree, checking the CR schedule might be a good idea...
Did anyone try that, have anything to report?
I tried looking at the
By jdrinboston
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 9:06pm
I tried looking at the commuter rail to go inbound from Quincy Center shortly after 4:30. There was an inbound from Greenbush at 4:28, but after that nada until later in the evening.
Oh, inbound would be screwed
By Matthew
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 1:24am
Old Colony is single tracked for several miles in Boston, so it's real tricky to squeeze a reverse-peak direction trip in during the rush.
That's what I did. Got back
By Katia
Wed, 12/11/2013 - 4:10pm
That's what I did. Got back to Quincy in under 15 minutes.
The MBTA should make announcements
By No one in particular
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 8:07pm
They should contain the address, phone, e-mail, and website for state senator Stan Rosenberg.
He of the "why should western mass "subsidize" the MBTA?". Go to his office, and demand that his bullshit dump on the T be fixed ... and then go to your state Senator's office and demand that any and all highway funds for Western MA be held up until the T debt is fixed.
This asshole needs to pay for his handiwork. stanrosenberg.com
Braintree line only running to and from JFK at 10:00pm
By anon
Tue, 12/10/2013 - 11:26pm
Ashmont only trains running southbound from park, DTX, etc . All Braintree branch passengers had to get off at JFK and go over to Braintree platform.
Conductor said problem would be fixed my am commute.
Good Lord
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