Dead train means Orange crush

By adamg on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 9:12am

A train died at Oak Grove around 8:30 a.m.

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Was earlier

By BostonUrbEx on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 10:10am.

Disabled train was actually more around 7:30-7:45am or so. I think the Tweet you saw was merely someone parroting the in-station announcements. Or -- which can easily be imagined -- there was a second disabled train.

Is the amount of MBTA

By Hyde_Parker on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 11:15am.

Is the amount of MBTA failures a new thing, or are they just being reported more?

I'm definitely reporting them more

By adamg on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 11:18am.

But it also seems like this sort of thing is happening more frequently of late.

It would be interesting to

By Hyde_Parker on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 11:57am.

It would be interesting to see a statistic, not that I can imagine the MBTA being pumped about providing one.

They haven't updated it since

By anon on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 12:41pm.

They haven't updated it since the summer, but the MBTA does have a "scorecard" which does include vehicle failure rates, measured as miles between failures:
http://www.mbta.com/about_the_mbta/scorecard/