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There's a dead trolley: Riders not jolly
By adamg on Thu, 11/09/2017 - 12:22pm
A trolley that flat-lined at Arlington means "severe" delays on the Green Line, the MBTA reports. At 12:16 p.m., Matthew Miller took advantage of that sweet in-tunnel WiFi:
Green line westbound is at a standstill - was saying a disabled train at Arlington while we were sitting at Park for 20 minutes, but now we moved a little bit and are still stuck
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and of course
This being the MBTA, language does not mean what you think it means. A "moderate" delay is actually a "major disruption in service". And we're beyond that now. They don't actually detail what "severe" is beyond "seriously affected", but I think it might mean "I live on this train now and I hope Charlie's wife comes by soon to hand me a sandwhich because I'm definitely missing my lunch plans".
Just one flaw in that plan
Charlie's wife can only hand sandwiches to people on moving trains.
Update
Green Line Defcon has just been downgraded from "severe" to "minor".
It's disgusting that the problems go so long without being fixed
It's high time that the people who run the MBTA stepped up to the plate and fixed the problems...once and for all!
This has always been
a pet peeve of mine, both from a time-management and a safety issue.
The train is at the station. The train tells people "Oh it's a minor delay/held for timing/whatever" and encourages people to not get off the train. The train then moves a few train lengths past the end of the station platform and parks there for half an hour, essentially trapping everyone on the train and in some cases, several packed trains in the tunnel. Everyone on that train ends up held effectively hostage, and if an emergency happens (medical, fire, worse) everyone is trapped.
They should be required to recommend people get off at each station, especially on lines where the distance between stations is short or there are alternate routes of travel easily accessible.