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When it rains it pours - inside Haymarket station
By adamg on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 10:03am
Jason B. was among the Orange Line commuters who would have benefited from some waders at Haymarket this morning.
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slip and slides?
maybe if they laid down a slip and slide everyone could take a slide! have a little fun before work!!!!
Oak Grove is in Malden, not
Oak Grove is in Malden, not Medford.
This flooding is on the 'Oak Grove' bound platform at Haymarket. There aren't any tunnels like this at Oak Grove
Gah
New record for UHub mistakes?
Fixed, thanks!
Meanwhile Thrillist pitches a crazier than usual North South RL
Complete with a Northeast Corridor that runs through the Berkshires and Connecticut Hills. Few want to deal with the realities of Boston transit. Many just want to submerse themselves in fantasy and forget about reality.
Question
Edit: Question withdrawn, story has been corrected.
Who was the contractor? why isn't the T suing them?
Shoddy work on public projects that results in ineptitude like this should result in lawsuits where contractors/insurers pay to correct this and provide the public the competent work we paid for.
This tunnel was probably
This tunnel was probably built decades ago and never (I assume) considered vasts amount of rain.
"'The' Contractor"?
This assumes that the link is the result of shoddy work done by a single contractor, and not decades of neglect.
I get nervous any time I have
I get nervous any time I have to walk through this tunnel. It seems at risk for collapse, if not cave-in. The ceiling is basically a crumbling hole, there's constant water infiltration even on dry days, and there has been no visible maintenance. I find it hard to believe this station isn't dangerous.
That looks like...
...one hell of an electrocution hazard.
Wet Stations
It's one thing that stations that leak like this, but there are also stations just designed to have no shelter, like the ridiculously designed Wood Island station on the Blue Line. When it rains you simply get wet except for a tiny patch of roof that everybody tries to huddle under. The rest is just exposed platform and wide open space. The benches get soaked. The much-maligned old bunker style Wood Island was far better.
It’s raining
It’s pouring the MBTA is snoring. Magoo went to bed, slept on his head and got wet this morning waiting for the MBTA train that never arrived because of signal problems and then mechanical problems and then weather delays. Magoo.