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Dead train at Haymarket station; bad news for MBTA nation
By adamg on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 2:01pm
An Orange Line train was harvested by the Grim Reaper; its desiccated husk had to be pulled down the tracks towards Forest Hills.
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Hey winter happens, Baker is
Hey winter happens, Baker is raising the fares and reducing service, so things will be sweep any day now. In other news, the South Boston waterfront is adding thousands of parking spaces and taxpayers are footing millions more for a new vehicle bridge and a parking garage for GE. Understand? If you want to get around Boston, Baker advises buy a car, or even more patriotic, a big SUV or pickup. Saudi Arabia thanks you Baker.
More? Or more reporting?
Have broken-down trains become more common the past 2 years?
Or do we just hear much more about it now, due to a combination of Social Media reporting, U-Hub puns, and heightened sensitivity since Snowmageddon 2015?
It's both (and will continue
It's both (and will continue to get worse until the new trains come)
Too bad Patrick waited until
Too bad Patrick waited until his last year in office to order those new trains.
...and too bad Mitt, Celucci,
...and too bad Mitt, Celucci, and Swift did nothing at all. Getting anything done for the T was always a fight for patrick versus Murray and Deleo, who are much more conservative especially with regards to public transportation (they just sang 'reform before revenue'. Patrick at least tried and had some successes with improving the T, most of the past (and current) governors just increase fares, cut service, delay projects and only do anything for the commuter rail.
First they destroy our transit
Next they will Flint our water.
... and too bad the current
'review board' doesn't have the sense to accelerate construction and delivery of the new trains. Oh wait, that would be the logical thing to do. Can't have any of that now, can we?
Um ...
There's a reason they can't do that: The company only recently began building the factory in Springfield that will build the cars.
Don't you know, it's Baker's
Don't you know, it's Baker's fault that the previous governor did nothing to fix the T?
And no reporting is done on
And no reporting is done on all the buses that just don't even start their routes. Several times the 95 has just not showed up, have to wait another 30 minutes for the next one, though no alert from MBTA, no reporting by Globe, Uhub, or Herald.
That happens with the 120 in East Boston also
Especially during the middle of the day and to late afternoon. The scheduled bus simply never shows up, then the next scheduled bus shows up when it is supposed to (which means later than it is scheduled). Where does the first bus vanish to? It's like there is a Bermuda Triangle for T Buses.
Driver is a no-show
Its simple actually. Lets say there are 4 drivers running 4 buses along a specific route on a regular day.
Then one decides to call out sick. The bus that driver operates simply is not on the route. So instead of all 4 buses running, only 3 operate.
usually by the time the necessary people know a driver is a no-show it is too late to call in someone to fill the slot. Even then if they call in another driver, that driver is now on overtime and the T may not be allowing overtime at that garage for what ever reason.
The T does not report this and may not be allowed to. All they can report is that there are delays on a route. that said, that also assumes that someone has told the guy at the Twitter keyboard.
And so told me this by an MBTA starter at a major station once.
Unless it involves the unions, pensions, or hiring
practices, the Herald doesn't care. And the Glob(e) merely plagarizes MBTA press releases, regardless of the subject.
In defense of Adam, UHub does a very good job in terms of reporting MBTA breakdowns and service failures that are 'high profile" - i.e. affect a large number of passengers. While I appreciate that failures on certain bus routes may cause inconvenience for those directly dependent upon the route, not every failure deserves a UHub headline. For one thing, if Adam did report every single failure or missed service, he would probably go crazy after about half a day.
Baker commandeered those
Baker commandeered those buses to personally shuttle GE execs around the state.
Orange Line
Use it daily from the north end of the line. Complained about the bussing during the fall. I ride it during rush hour and at night between rush hour and after, depending on what I'm doing in town. I am happy now with the inconvenience put up with during the fall, the trains seem to be more reliable this winter.
...its dessicated husk...
Surely you mean 'desiccated'
No known relation to Dr. Pedantry...
Obviously, spelling not my strong suit
Thanks, fixed.