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Some passengers on a Framingham-bound train forced a door open to escape after nearly two hours stuck with no AC in the sun in Brighton
By adamg on Mon, 08/01/2022 - 9:47pm
The 5:35 p.m. train from South Station to Framingham this evening pulled out of Boston Landing and died. And then sat there for almost two hours, with no power and so no AC and increasingly overheated passengers complaining about the lack of any communication from the crew about what the hell was happening.
Some passengers couldn't take it anymore and forced open a door and escaped - and then climbed over a fence off the tracks with the help of some nearby residents and a ladder.
Finally, the train was somehow pulled or pushed back to Boston Landing and the remaining passengers were told to get off and wait for the next train.
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Time to update the mbta grid
Time to update the mbta grid
"Grid"?
"Grid"?
Why don’t we take all that
Why don’t we take all that encore money and build up the MBTA to 21st century standards ,
"All that Encore money"
I literally hadn't thought about the place in a month until you said that.
I still can't believe that they spent all that money to build a place with no competition. Maybe they're banking on government not letting them have the monopoly forever...which the Libertarian in me thinks is smart too.
I'll take 20th century
I'll take 20th century standards at this point
Or even 18th.
Bring back stagecoaches.
Sounds about right. Add this
Sounds about right. Add this to Fed's long, long, long list.
This is what it has come to
Passengers left to their own devices to escape what could only have been an excruciatingly torturous and dangerous situation. Where were the T employees? Useless, as usual. Heads should roll for this. Society has become completely rudderless and the T is leading the way.
Damn
Almost two hours without AC? After 20 minutes I’d have busted out of there. This is really disgusting and beyond disappointing. Almost every day there’s another story about our pitiful trains.
The lack of AC was only part of the problem
There was no ventilation whatsoever.
If outdoor air moves through it is still going to be hot, but might not get unsafe.
This is the equivalent of the MBTA leaving people in a locked van in a parking lot. I can't see how that is possibly ever justified.
The ministry of (T)ruth
Can hardly wait for the propaganda spokesperson at the MBTA explain that this was not a mutiny by the passengers.
Inside scoop
Check out this reddit comment thread - some conductors call out the T and Keolis management
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/wdwmjk/some_passengers_on_mbta_...
Sweet Fucking Christ
From the top comment on that thread:
What in the actual good God-damned chicken-fried fuck. They aren't even capable of communicating (or comprehending) the simple fact that the train is dead as shit and ain't going nowhere.
It's been nearly a whole day
It's been nearly a whole day and we have not yet seen the "we don't own that right of way so we don't control dispatching and can't send a relief train" trope.
Very neighborly!
I imagine that when someone moves into that neighborhood they know to expect train noise. I don't imagine they expect to have to rescue train passengers!
Up and Over
Yeah, I'm wondering where the ladder appeared from...
?
From somebody's garage or shed? Maybe a storeroom? Where do you keep the ladders at your house?
It was probably on the "down"
It was probably on the "down" side of the climb. You climb UP the fence on the track side, then DOWN the fence into someone's yard, and that someone kindly brought out a ladder.
You don't have a dedicated
You don't have a dedicated ladder room?
No
No. And now I'm feeling the lack.
the .. ladder .. store?
it's where I get all mine.
Yeah, I'm wondering where the
Fortunately, Commuter Rail's little-publicized Theater On The Train program was doing a production of Our Town that night.
Wow
Now you're getting the full airline experience for just a few bucks instead of shelling out hundreds. Kudos to the MBTA for this level of service!
Seriously
Imagine being Charlie Baker, seeing this, and just giving absolutely zero (expletives).
Sounds kinda liberating to just not care about anything at all.
Why would Baker care?
All he has to do is grin and bluff through another few months and then it's no doubt on to a lobbying job (possibly for Uber, that would seem fitting). That's the ultimate goal for a certain kind of bland sociopath: a job that pays well and gets your ego stroked in exchange for being willing to make things worse for strangers every day.