Jon Landis got a close-up look at the tree that halted service on the 71 trackless trolley outbound at Belmont Street around 8:20 this morning.
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Jon Landis got a close-up look at the tree that halted service on the 71 trackless trolley outbound at Belmont Street around 8:20 this morning.
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I usually take the 71 and
By anon
Mon, 09/12/2016 - 11:02am
I usually take the 71 and this morning, at 8:20ish the next two buses were coming in 42 and 44 minutes, per nextbus. I thought maybe the buses weren't tracking, but gave up after fifteen minutes and walked the 2.5 miles to harvard sq.
Looks like you had plenty of company
By BikerGeek
Mon, 09/12/2016 - 11:28am
I biked to work along Mt. Auburn St. this morning and I saw plenty of people walking, presumably because they'd given up on the bus.
Damn ents and their moots.
By baustin
Mon, 09/12/2016 - 1:54pm
Damn ents and their moots.
I took this bus daily on
By Anon
Mon, 09/12/2016 - 2:24pm
I took this bus daily on weekdays for two years until I got a car last November, partially because service was so unreliable. Today my car was in the shop, and I decided to walk to work instead of dealing with the bus - very glad I did! Oddly, I walked down Mount Auburn before the tree snafu happened (around 7am), and only two buses passed me on the way. Maybe service preemptively slow?
Correction
By Anon
Mon, 09/12/2016 - 2:44pm
*Maybe service was preemptively slow?
So that's what that awful noise was...
By 350125
Mon, 09/12/2016 - 3:39pm
I live right around the corner. I was out on my deck this morning, and I'm pretty sure I heard the hideous screeching/smashing sound when this happened. It was so loud that I thought maybe a car had crashed through one of the storefronts in the little pull-through driveway by the Star Market there, and was a little surprised that I didn't hear sirens afterwards.
Thanks for sharing this - glad no-one seems to have been hurt.
"Wires Down near Watertown"
By Cleary Squared
Mon, 09/12/2016 - 7:56pm
I was near Mount Auburn Hospital around 8am when the power to the trackless trolley went out. I saw the damage at Belmont Street - the wires were drooping and the trolley pole was bent, with quite a chunk of the tree wrapped around it.
They should have
By Karl
Tue, 09/13/2016 - 6:40pm
ran the non-trackless buses in this case. They usually do that when the tracklesses are out of order.
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