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Green Line to Riverside dead; Green Line riders see red
By adamg on Fri, 05/29/2015 - 5:40pm
Workers remove tree that fell on overhead wires. Photo by MBTA.
From Reservoir to Riverside, the Green Line is a non-entity. Buses are stacking up at Reservoir.
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Actually
The Red Line is only the only line that hasn't had a power issue yet today.
Hopefully, you
haven't jinxed it.
The red line had problems
The red line had problems earlier in the week. Or maybe it was last week.
Damn you again Old Man Winter
Damn you again Old Man Winter!!!
Blame Brookline
They rejected the Olympics and their magic power to fix all fail for free!
sigh
I get the 51 to west roxbury and forest hills at reservoir cleveland circle. just as I got there, hoards of riverside people started coming out of the woodwork. although I gotta say, the mbta handled it pretty well. took less than 15 minutes for riverside buses to show up and move a large number of people on their way.
But shit like this is happening with depressing regularity.
Not as easy for me
Once I got off at Reservoir it took me an hour to get on a shuttle. One of the first buses they sent broke down and had to be fixed so it could get out of there (without passengers). Although I agree the MBTA did an OK job tonight, this is the third time I've had to get off at Reservoir for a shuttle in the past 3 years. Fortunately in all three cases the Red Sox were on the road. I left work at 5:10 and got to Riverside at 7:25.
That tree looks like it has been dead for a while. Doesn't anybody check these things?
From the time of the wire
From the time of the wire being downed it took 2 hours and 45 minutes for the first shuttle buses to show up inbound on the D line at Newton Centre.
If you don't maintain your infrastructure
It falls apart. But don't tell the T that, they prefer to deal with things as they pop up. Or are not funded in a way to address regular maintenance issues. It is terrible
If you don't remove trees from your right of way
becase some idiot "tree committee" in the community your tracks run through tells you you can't, then stuff like this is bound to happen.
Perhaps if the T was allowed to backcharge Newton and Brookline the costs they incurred from the resulting delays, then the towns might recognize that removing trees is not the end of the world and is actually for the greater good of society at large.
Do you have a cite that
Do you have a cite that Newton and Brookline prevent the T from removing trees?
From the Newton tree manual
More "Mother may I permission" BS government policy that prevents agencies like the T from effecitvely doing proper maintenance. And what happened last week is the result of such nonsense.
That tree
Is dead as a door nail! And has been for quite a while. You'd think there would be some sort of maintenance along the rail corridor to make sure the wires arent damaged by branches and falling dead trees.
Oh yeah, it's the MBTA.... Ugh
Those are called snags when still upright.
And they are easy to spot, what with no bark. That one became a deadfall when it crunched a wire.
Commuter rail lines seem to be more proactive about maintaining their right-of-ways. That one looks like it may have been on private property in a high value area.