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Trolley smoking at Brookline Village, train dead at Mass. Ave.
By adamg on Tue, 02/17/2015 - 4:43pm
It's not usually a good sign when smoke starts pouring out of a trolley, as Emily shows us around 4:40 p.m.
She reports the train was evacuated. Brookline FD showed up and took care of whatever was causing the smoke and the T made preparations to have the train towed away (and shot?) so that service could resume.
Not long after, passengers had to get off an inbound Orange Line train at Mass. Ave. due to brake issues.
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Comments
When will the MBTA admit
When will the MBTA admit widespread TLF sabotage?
Somebody out there is
Somebody out there is probably or will be writing a book on the mbta fiasco that's been going on.
Title of book
"First Subway system in America becomes worst of all time"
I must say my travel on the T today
went pretty smoothly. Got on the D line @ reservoir (almost no wait time), train half empty, seats available, got of at Park, went downstairs, got on a waiting Alewife train 2/3rds full (not bad) to Kendall. Did the same thing in reverse, it went pretty smoothly, actually better than usual, fewer people (holiday?).
Hopefully Baker will grow A
Hopefully Baker will grow A pair and get into what the hell is going on and has been going on at the T. CAN YOU SAY CORRUPTION!!!!!
Privatize the Mbta, sell it
Privatize the Mbta, sell it to google for $1billion.
Google will get all the new advance trains and systems on track, they will change all gas motored buses into electric.they will put their advertisements on all of the buses and trains, rename train stations.they will add starbucks service on moving trains. The possibilities...
If how Google has wrecked
YouTube (clip time limits, excessive advertising that's forced on viewers, idiotic copyright policies, etc. etc.) is any indication, I'm not so sure I'd want Google running the MBTA.
Remember when...
...smoke pouring out of a train would have been a big deal?
Nichevo
I think by this point, a sort of "It can't be helped" fatalism has set in amongst most of us. Another train broke down? What are you going to do about it? Oh, one's on fire now? Meh, get off and wait for the next one. It can't be helped.
In Japan...
... one says "sho ga nai" (or "shikata ga nai") for things that can't be helped. For things that one _can_ do something about, one says "Ganbatte!" (go out and do your best - ironically, this term in usually translated as "good luck" in English, which totally misses the point of the Japanese original).