![Blackout at Back Bay station on the Orange Line](https://universalhub.com/files/styles/main_image_-_bigger/public/new/blackout.jpg)
The lights went out at Tufts and Back Bay on the Orange Line this rush hour, slowing trains as riders stumbled in the dark. At least, as Joe Growhowski shows us, Back Bay had some natural light coming in from one end.
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Station's never looked better!
By anon
Fri, 04/22/2016 - 4:43am
Station's never looked better!
Mole Men
By anon
Fri, 04/22/2016 - 6:16am
Did the poor mole men who live in the bowels of the station forget to pay their electric bill?
No emergency lighting in the
By Rob
Fri, 04/22/2016 - 10:05am
No emergency lighting in the station?
Not even one weak battery-backup floodlight bulb fixture for every ten regular fixtures?
ditto
By johnmcboston
Fri, 04/22/2016 - 10:48am
My first thoguh as well. If this was a real power loss, lots of lights should have kicked on automagically (Either emergency lights, or some regular lights hooked up to an emergency circuit)
The person (or persons) manning the pedal power generator (s)
By whyaduck
Fri, 04/22/2016 - 11:23am
finally went to that big T station in the sky.
So, apparently subway stations
By anon
Fri, 04/22/2016 - 11:57am
are not required to have emergency lighting systems like all other public and commercial buildings.
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