I passed through Wellington on my way to the Sox parade in '04. It was a mob scene, to say the least. That narrow corridor from the parking lot was completely full of people. They only had one booth open and if I recall a number of the automated machines were broken. We walked to the front and ultimately walked right through an open gate.
Back when I worked in the city, I used Wellington. I came from the parking garage side and recall that one of the two people movers always seemed out of order. Do those still break down a lot? I remember workers at the time talking about how they were going to build a covered walkway for the impatient or when the trams broke. Did that ever get built?
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I passed through Wellington on my way to the Sox parade in '04. It was a mob scene, to say the least. That narrow corridor from the parking lot was completely full of people. They only had one booth open and if I recall a number of the automated machines were broken. We walked to the front and ultimately walked right through an open gate.
Back when I worked in the city, I used Wellington. I came from the parking garage side and recall that one of the two people movers always seemed out of order. Do those still break down a lot? I remember workers at the time talking about how they were going to build a covered walkway for the impatient or when the trams broke. Did that ever get built?
No more people movers at Wellington
Now it's just a very long pedestrian bridge. I wish they'd installed moving sidewalks.
In 2004 there weren't any Charlie machines yet, so I'm not sure what you mean.
IIRC, Wellington station was one of the first places
the T tried out automatic machines to dispense tokens.
Correct, they were automatic
Correct, they were automatic token machines.
And
And, in my 3 years of using wellington every day, they were out of order more than the switches on the red line.