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Car on the track, now that's whack
By adamg on Mon, 01/04/2016 - 6:07pm
Oopsie. Photo by Alex Byer.
The T can't win for losing today. The outbound B Line has come to a complete halt at Warren Street because somebody managed to get a car right onto the tracks.
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Well that explains why they kicked us off @Washington inbound
o_O
...wait, no it doesn't.
Oh, that explains it.
Plus it's the coldest it's been all winter, so that was the extra kick to the dick I was looking for from the MBTA.
Yes it does
On the B line, the only midway turnarounds for the trolleys are between Blandford and BU East, between Blandford and Packard's Corner, and between Washington and Warren Streets.
Given that none of the outbound trains could go past Warren Street, they would have to short-turn some of the trains that were already that far outbound to maintain some service (outbound Washington to BC, inbound in general) until the car was removed from the tracks to allow outbound trains run the full length of the line.
I mean
Babcock and Packard's Corner
Looks like Baker's car
The guy really will stop at nothing to derail the MBTA. Rumor has it one of the Koch brothers was navigating.
Love how the MBTA employee is
Love how the MBTA employee is taking a pic. "Dude you won't believe this shit!"
Maybe
Maybe it's evidence for the hearing to strip the incompetent driver of their licen...no, can't do it
More like evidence
for the Green Line operator's hearing to explain the delay in service.
awful intersection
That whole intersection is a disaster, especially the westbound lane. between cars (illegally) cutting over from the service road onto Comm Ave and the lack of separation from the T tracks it's been a traffic nightmare for as long as I can remember. wish they could do something to keep cars from making that left merge.
What do you mean?
There are signs. There are traffic signals. By UHub logic, that means that anyone who makes a mistake is just an idiot.
they should mount cameras on
they should mount cameras on the light poles and ticket people who make the illegal left merge. its an easy solution and will provide an instant revenue stream.
Illegal merge?
I drove down that stretch of road every day in Brighton for years. What suggests to you that the merge is illegal? The carriageway actually leads you onto Comm Ave. -- the two way service road afterwards is not where you're lead by the roadway. The signage there suggests to me an illegal left turn from the carriageway onto Kelton Street.
I was wondering the same thing, and I agree with Shawnp.
Unless something has changed (haven't been down there in about a year, but lived in the vicinity for 20 years), I agree with Shawnp. I have never been under the impression that going from the oubound carriageway onto the outbound "main" part of Comm. Ave was unlawful, but taking a left onto Kelton from the outbound carriageway was prohibited. I just looked at the streetview, too, which is as I remembered it.
All of that said, I will admit that it is a screwy intersection, and that when I drove through it for the first time 20 years ago, I damn near ended up going the wrong way on the main part of Comm. Ave. (IIRC, it was the T tracks moving from the right median (btwn the outbound "main" and the outbound carriageway) back to the middle of the "main" median that initially threw me).
Yup
I lived on Gordon Street from 2008-2011, and I used to have to cross at that intersection every morning to get to the T. I'd cross Warren Street by the pizza place, and then have to cross the outbound carriage lane and then the outbound traffic lane of Comm Ave. The pedestrian cross lights never lined up with the traffic properly because there were so many turn lane options, and you basically had to make a run for it every time you got an opening. It was scary.
The only good thing about it was the outbound side being on the opposite side of the intersection, so I rarely had to cross that awful intersection in the dark.
The carriage roads
are the real WTF here.
Comm ave should have the tracks in the middle, then travel and turn lanes, then nose-in parking, then bike lanes, then sidewalk. Having all of this stuff, plus random breaks for turns and merges, along with inconsistent placement of the tracks is something that you could only build in Boston. Anywhere else they'd put you in stocks for even thinking it.
changing lanes in an
changing lanes in an intersection is illegal, so i'd say the carriage to main merge is always a violation of that rule.
changing lanes in the middle
changing lanes in the middle of an intersection is illegal, so by default i'd say that merging there is illegal.
Car on green line track out bound
https://youtu.be/sKh2JBcp0sA