By adamg on Sun., 7/19/2020 - 2:29 pm
Dylan Rossiter asks:
Anyone know what these coil things are at Boylston Inbound?
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A variety of answers via Twitter
By adamg
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 2:36pm
Oven City hammocks
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 4:49pm
You hang your hammocks there. Get a cooling breeze when the train goes by. Just like people in certain Chinese and Indian cities do in the medians of freeways.
The correct non-fun answer is
By anon
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 10:14pm
The correct non-fun answer is that they are for holding cables
Something similar at Harvard outbound
By Tim Mc.
Sun, 07/19/2020 - 10:20pm
I can't recall if the ones at Harvard actually have any cables in them.
If I'm not mistaken
By boo_urns
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 2:01pm
They do; they carry fiber optic cable.
Is it just me
By roadman
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 2:46pm
Or are those cables being placed awfully close to the overhead wire? Can only imagine the potential damage should a pantograph go awry (which is a more common occurrence than one may think). Plus the whole design looks kind of half-a$$ed to me.
why?
By cybah
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 5:05pm
and if the pantograph hits a glass wire....
Nothing happens! Its glass. (or insulated glass)
Once again roadman takes a dump on the T. "design" its not for design its for function. I've actually installed these before and the picture is not complete. There's a top part to that.
With respect, I pointed out what I perceived to be
By roadman
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 8:23pm
a possible design flaw that could potentially result in damage under certain circumstances. Hardly 'dumping" on the T, as you put it. The last time I was in Boylston Station was on March 13th, so I haven't seen the installation in person (and have no desire to, given that I'm high risk for complications from Covid).
However, as someone else pointed out, I am likely perceiving the photo wrong.
I think it's just you.
By boo_urns
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 7:11pm
Those same brackets are placed along the walls of the red line, at least between Alewife and at least Harvard (assuming Alewife because I've at least seen them at Davis and Harvard; it's been a while since I've been on the train). I don't think there's a ton of clearance between them and the side of the trains cars. For the Green Line, these look like they're well off to the side of the car and any potential conflict with the catenary arms. I don't think fiber cable is terribly expensive, for what it's worth.
Ideally these sorts of cables are in conduits or otherwise concealed elsewhere, but the only downfall about these seem to be, to me, that they're not the most sightly thing, as you allude to.
Thank you
By roadman
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 8:24pm
for the clarification.
New passenger loading system
By KellyJMF
Mon, 07/20/2020 - 10:42am
The hooks get you by the back of the shirt to keep you at the proper distance and then fling you inside the subway car when the doors open.
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