It has been 0 weeks since part of a ceiling fell at a T stop

By adamg on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 9:01pm

NBC Boston posts video of "chunks of concrete falling from the ceiling near riders at the Downtown Crossing station on Monday." On a Red Line platform, because that's the line where things fall from above, as opposed to the Orange Line, where things catch on fire.

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Maybe we should all start

By anon on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 9:36pm.

Maybe we should all start wearing hard hats.

Could have been worse.

By anon on Fri, 06/30/2023 - 9:39pm.

Imagine if there had a been a bench there, like a normal bench that people sit on.

Sadly not surprising

By mg on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 12:59am.

From the WFXT story:

MBTA is set to create a new position, Chief of Stations, to oversee the upkeep of the facilities.

“In addition to implementing strategies that improve communications with riders and addressing rider concerns, this individual will manage a staff of employees responsible for the inspection of stations and develop a process to report any defects or other findings to the appropriate departments for mitigation,” according to T officials.

If it were any organization other than the T, I'd be shocked that they didn't already have someone in charge of ensuring stations were inspected for safety and needed repairs.

They need another one

By perruptor on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 1:23pm.

Gravity Czar - tasked with preventing that pesky gravity from pulling down T property.

Serious understaffing was one of the FTA's findings

By peter on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 8:30pm.

The FTA determined that for its size and scope the T is understaffed. So it shouldn't be a surprise that either no one is assigned this task or more likely someone is nominally assigned this task but also assigned many other tasks.