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Trains sputter and stop on all four subway lines; Blue Line still out of commission
By adamg on Sun, 01/30/2022 - 6:45pm
At 4 p.m., Teresa Polhemus, the BPDA's executive director, posted a photo of the line she was in at Government Center for a bus across the harbor because the Blue Line was out of service - as it had been since at least 5:44 a.m., when the T first reported "a disabled train" at Maverick.
7 hours later and the disabled blue line train is still at Maverick and there’s a line like this in freezing weather for shuttles to get to East Boston. How is this possible?
Throughout the day, the T reported delays on the Red and Orange lines due to trains giving up in the snow and cold. Buses replaced trains on the Riverside Line due to weather-related issues.
In the late afternoon, the Red Line was replaced by buses between Harvard Square and Alewife due to a person under a train at Harvard Square.
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Bad day for the MBTA
Worse day for a lot of pissed off passengers who are freezing cold and stuck on crowded shuttle buses with unmasked riders.
And Boston Schools are open tomorrow
They cancel for 6 inches and stay open after a storm like this. Little kids at the bus stops tomorrow is going to be dangerous.
Snow Emergency over tomorrow
6 AM to be exact.
Care to give an example of when BPS was closed due to snow more than a day after the last flakes have fallen.
After the Blizzard of '78
After the Blizzard of '78
Boston has canceled school before a flake has fallen
And there are 4 foot snow mounds on city streets right now where little kids are supposed to board busses
You must be new here
There were 10 foot high mounds in 2015, yet at most the day after the storms (that would be today, by the way) would have been the longest that schools were closed.
No I'm not new here
Been here all my life.
I was going to mention that one
So, we have your example from 44 years ago, and another, which I don't think was real, from 25 years ago. Interestingly, none from 2015, which is when we had worse conditions than we have now for probably 3 weeks straight.
April Fool's storm
If I recall BPS was called for quite a while, even a few days later when things had basically melted away. I am sure there are other examples.
Your memory is vague
The storm was 2 days long. School was back on by the third of April.
Vague, hazy you could even say
It was 2 days long - from the 31st and over on the 1st, and BPS was closed at least on the second, and I am fairly certain the 3rd, as Quincy was also closed on the third, and possibly the 4th.
Source, at least for Quincy:
https://archive.org/details/Quincy_Sun_1997_Jan-June/page/n319/mode/2up
Then again, others already proved your statement wrong, so w/e.
Blue line bike tunnel.
Blue line bike tunnel.
Never gonna happen, but would be awesome.
Don't DPW trucks give rides
Don't DPW trucks give rides to anyone who needs one?
straight flush ?
i'm going to encore.
beverly johnson...
should sure get fired over this.
Well
So much for all that attention and fanfare of Baker making the MBTA winter resilient after '15.
It takes time to fix things.
Those task forces don't get appointed overnight, you know.
New railcars too
Most of the new Orange and Red line cars that were ordered during the Patrick administration still haven't been delivered, let alone the additional ones that were ordered during the Baker admin.
Time to stop charging people
Time to stop charging people for this crappy service. Make the T free!