See all those people? They're waiting for an Orange Line shuttle bus at Malden Center. "Shuttle bus line is MASSIVE!" Rich reports.
On the more frostbitten segments of the T today, riders slowly shuffled through long lines for shuttle buses. The luckier ones boarded one of the growing number of big charter buses the T has hired, such as these buses that Marta spotted at JFK/UMass for the ride to Quincy and Braintree:
But they were often slow. RoxDot877 reported shortly after 8 a.m.:
I got on a shuttle from Malden 30 mins ago and still haven't reached Sullivan!!!
The unluckier riders, though, tried to board at intermediate stops, such as Savin Hill, where long lines stretched endlessly and the people in them got to watch full-to-bursting shuttle buses just drive on by. Frankie P. said with chattering teeth: "Thanks MBTA! You're the best:"
Kyle W. Kerr reported a similar experience waiting for a Green Line replacement at Packards Corner in Allston:
Emily Cervone reported around 8:25 from Brookline:
Just watched the 65 barrel past a bunch of people waiting in Washington Square and the C line shuttle do the same.
William McAuliffe looked out his Huntington Avenue window to see some poor unfortunates who didn't realize the E train isn't running:
Gordon Hallett took a peek inside the closed Oak Grove station on the Orange Line:
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Story time!
By anon
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 12:58pm
For four of the ten years I lived in Boston, I worked for a company that did not shut down in bad weather. Terrible blizzard? Come to work. Hurricane? Come to work. Get stuck at work, sleep at work, almost get hit by a snowplow wading through 3 feet of snow to get to work, because we never close. That kind of company.
I had always harbored fantasies of getting to take my cross-country skis to work, but the T ran so efficiently and the city always had the streets plowed in a reasonable time period, so it was never possible without ruining the skis on exposed cement/asphalt.
Now, it's possible to ski to work, and I don't live in Boston any more. SO not fair.
This was my commute today
By CoatRack
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 1:18pm
Walked from home to Ashmont, in the roads because half the sidewalks aren't shoveled.
10:27: Got to Ashmont. ~75 people waiting
10:54: Shuttle bus pulled in
11:01: Shuttle bus pulled out
11:20: Bus got to Fields Corner
11:32: Still not at Savin Hill
11:47: Arrived at JFK
11:56: Train left JFK
12:04: Train arrived at Park Street
12:17: Green line left Park Street
12:24: Train stopped outside Arlington for 9 minutes due to congestion
12:46: Train arrived at Kenmore. Mass confusion by people who hadn't heard the 9.2 million announcements.
12:48: Friend happened to be biking by. I stood on his pegs for the final Kenmore to BU Central stretch of the commute. It took 3 minutes.
here's mine...
By teric
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 2:57pm
710: waiting at fairmount for train to So Sta: 10 degrees
718: no train, no notice, no alerts, nothing
750: walked to Hyde Park for 8:15 train: scrolling marquee said 6:21a train was 20-30 minutes late.not a good sign...
810: train arrives but does not stop since it is full...no alerts, no notices..11 degrees
840: 8:36 arrives but does not stop since it is full...no alerts, no notices; 6:21 train still 20-30 minutes late
850: jump on crowded 32 bus to For Hills: 12 degrees
915: arrive at FH
938: train finally departs completely FULL
950: train arrives at Ruggles (train sits for "sched adjustment"...must have been driving too fast!)
10:00: arrives at Tufts
10:15: arrive at work, grab cup of hot coffee and pour over my head. 6:21a train still 20-30 minutes late...
3 hours in 12 degree weather. no notices, no alerts.
gawd, i can't wait to go home.
Plowing snow from platform on to tracks?
By Markk02474
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 2:16pm
Is this what is contributing to stuck trains?
I saw some footage on WHDH-TV from Weymouth station on the Greenbush line showing a train blocked by a snow mound. The mound looked like it came from snow plowed off of the passenger platform which was clean down to the concrete, except for a snow pile at the end. The snow pile on the platform matched the snow pile on the tracks and blocked train car.
Is one contractor paid to clear platforms and not responsible for tracks, so dumps it there? Seems stupid to me. Then too would be designing platforms without a good place to put snow. Will the new Green Line Extension stations have the same problem?
Plowing money from transit into the highway system
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 2:33pm
That's a huge part of the problem.
Except it isn't true
By Markk02474
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 3:10pm
How much of your rail or subway fare is going to fund roads? How about bus fare, though some should because heavy buses operate on roads, producing wear at an accelerated rate - just note all the pavement depressions at bus stops and traffic lights on bus routes.
Tired of your lies.
Weymouth Landing Greenbush Train
By Boean
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 2:53pm
I was on the platform at 7:00 AM and saw the 5:10 AM Greenbush train dead on the tracks. It looks like either the train was pushing all the uncleared snow on the tracks since Greenbush or maybe snow fell in front of the train from the overpass above. Got to work two hour and a half hours later thanks to Uber. Can we get tax write-offs for the alternate transportation methods we're being forced to take?
A "snow mound" from a platform should be no match for a train.
By issacg
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 3:10pm
and the fact that it apparently is tells me a lot about what is going wrong here.
Here was my commute:
By Charlie
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 3:37pm
Here was my commute:
8:15 Left home in South End on bike
(Passed a lot of stopped traffic on Boylston St)
8:35 Arrived at work in Financial District. Parked bike in parking garage.
If there was ever a winter for bicycling, this is it. It's much warmer and shorter than 3 hour T rides. I promise.
I like yer spirit but south end to downtown?
By teric
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 9:03pm
it almost doesn't count as a commute by most people's experience...
These last three weeks, though?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 9:23pm
I think it qualifies. Heaven knows that I'd be out there if I had a 2-3 mile ride. 8 miles would be an ordeal.
How the HELL is this
By exMasshole
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 6:36pm
How the HELL is this acceptable? It's NOT. This, Mr. Baker is a state of emergency. From shoveling out railroad right-of-ways by hand (because no transit system in the world apparently uses plows or snowblowers), to hours-long lines just to travel to a job 10 miles away. GET OUT Of THE DAMN MEMA BUNKER, and get your ass infront of a camera, then get your ass on a plane to DC. These are your constituents, taxpayers and the people who make this place work. Don't kid yourself, this BS is destroying our economy. Thanks to years of inaction by people like you.
Except...
By Hyde_Parker
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 4:35pm
His major campaign donors in Deluxbury, or Swellsley don't take the T.
Charlie Baker's probably got a lot of major donors
By mplo
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 6:01pm
in Lincoln, Weston, Lexington and a lot of those other wealthy white Boston exurbs who don't use the MBTA at all, either.
They don't?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 7:02pm
I have coworkers living in all those places and they are pissed!
Did anyone expect....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 9:31pm
... Baker to basically go onto hiding rather than rallying the troops, taking the lead in providing information to the public and generally simply doing his f**king job? Major fail -- provisional grade of F--.
We're starting to see just
By exMasshole
Tue, 02/17/2015 - 10:51pm
We're starting to see just how unqualified this guy is, especially during a time of crisis. I mean really, you've got to be shitting me.
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