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Inside the control center that keeps the T running

By adamg on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 12:05pm

MBTA OCC Video

Frank Oglesby Jr. (you know, the "The next Red Line train to Ashmont is now approaching" guy) narrates this brief tour of the T's Operations Control Center on High Street.

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Comments

By aldos on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 12:18pm.

Funny how the T could get him to narrate this video, but not the new green line announcements that sound like they're made by some random guy mumbling on the other side of the room from the microphone.

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By anon on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 3:19pm.

I think the T should require drivers who make live announcements to take microphone training on how to speak clearly. It only needs to be a one day training. So many of them, especially on the Blue Line, don't now how to work a microphone. Either they are too close to it, or too far away, or the announcement is so completely mumbled, garbled or rushed, that the message is incomprehensible. This happens constantly.

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By anon on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 12:48pm.

If Frank Oglesby still works at the T, then why were the new announcements on the Green Line recorded in like 3 different voices? Couldn't they just have gotten him for the sake of consistency?

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By Some on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 12:55pm.

Great video, I think it's beneficial to have things like this explain how things work.
Also, somehow it's very comforting to hear him speak in complete sentences rather than mixed up words as on my usual #77 bus.

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By bractune on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 1:37pm.

it kind of creeps me out a lil

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By Elmer on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 1:41pm.

          ... where's the real control center?

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By beautiful_nightmare on Sat, 04/16/2016 - 3:18pm.

Thats the real control center, but unfortunately thats not how smooth it looks and definitely not how dispatch sounds whrn they talk to us employees. There was only one guy, no matter how hectic it got, his voice NEVER change and always was professional. Dont let this video fool you all!!!

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By Elmer on Sat, 04/16/2016 - 5:40pm.

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By Somebody Else. on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 4:26pm.

"running", you say.

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By mplo on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 7:14pm.

I like the fact that the MBTA has implemented the electronic signs that indicates when trains are arriving, and when others are due to arrive. It helps a great deal not to have to constantly wonder when the next train will arrive after having just missed boarding a train by a minute or so.

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By Turtlegeuse on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 8:05pm.

Ironically, this T video uses them. Or maybe they underexposed it intentionally to obfuscate details for security concerns.

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By editrickster on Sun, 04/17/2016 - 11:10am.

Maybe that was caused by incorrect F-stops.

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By theszak on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 11:31pm.

A kind of video production that would be great for a behind the scenes backstage tour at Copley Square Boston Public Library!

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