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Body on tracks shuts Alewife station; buses replace Red Line to and from Davis
By adamg on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 11:20am
Firefighters descend to platform. Photo by Patrick Peralta.
UPDATE: NECN reports a body was found on the tracks.
Station was shut around 10:45 a.m. due to a "medical emergency;" now it's full of police, firefighters and EMTs.
Peralta reports:
Not a good sign when you arrive to an awful smell and these guys heading to the tracks.
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Huh?
It could be anything. It could be someone jumping onto the 3rd rail or a problem on a train.
They inspect the system at night which is why they don't run 24h service (so they say) so unless there is a specific emergency failure why shutdown during normal operations for what should be normal inspections?
Bakers boys just said they
Bakers boys just said they are cancelling late night service because of costs (similar subsidy to commuter rail riders), nothing to do with inspections. That was the pre Patrick administration excuse, proved untrue.
They did inspect at night,
They did inspect at night, but not every track, every night.
Or the jumper could have stayed home.
Eom.
I believe Aldos is referring
I believe Aldos is referring to the emergency inspections that WMATA is doing today in Washington DC. They had a fire and stopped all subway service to inspect the type of cable that is the suspected cause.
WMATA also had a death last
WMATA also had a death last year due to a fire with the same cause as their most recent one.
Apparently DC is in
Apparently DC is in competition with Boston to see who can have the worst transit system.
I was there around 8 and
I was there around 8 and there was a faint funny smell.
I think that was something
I think that was something else. I noticed it too - faint burning smell - on my commute, but service was running fine during morning rush hour. This happened after 10 and ... it wouldn't have been faint if someone were electrocuted.
I never understand closing a
I never understand closing a station down for hours to the point where you have to run shuttles because of an accident like this.
It's wrong to interfere so many people's lives because of one lifeless body. The living are more important than quasi-religious beliefs that a corpse is sacred.
OK, so you don't know anything about investigations ...
It's not to respect the body, although God forbid that happen because we know how important your more evolved self is, it's because investigating a fatal incident takes careful work and that takes time. Hard to believe, but true.
Davis sq station frequently
Davis sq station frequently has a weird, burning smell. I smelled it today, but it definitely wasn't the first time.