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Green Line trolley derails, followed by smoke and evacuation in a tunnel
By adamg on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 12:41pm
UPDATE: The T announced the resumption of service at 4:50 p.m.
An inbound D train derailed between Hynes and Copley Square. Brian Campbell reports a friend called to say she's now covered in soot after something began burning and passengers had to walk through the tunnel to Copley:
She was on an inbound train and evacuated in the tunnel between Hynes and Copley, they exited at Copley.
The T is now running buses instead of trolleys between Park Street and Kenmore Square.
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Don't worry
Fare hikes will fix it! Service got so much better after the last 2, this should be the one that gets the T "back on track!"
/sarcasm.
is it safe
to be in a bus in Copley Square?
Photos of evacuees
My worst nightmare...
...would be to be evacuated in that tunnel. Not a day goes by when I don't see at least one rat -- on the platforms! -- at Hynes. I can only imagine how infested the tunnels are.
I've submitted multiple complaints on the MBTA website. Hopefully they've got some invisible rodent control efforts going on, but I haven't seen anything overt, and the problem seems to be getting worse.
So when is OSHA or the NTSB
So when is OSHA or the NTSB going to do something about our deathtrap toxic substance filled subway system?
This disgusts me. Riders are
This disgusts me. Riders are sick of putting their lives at risk whenever they hop on this broken equipment. This has gone on way too long and it is almost criminal. WTF did all our money go and what is it still being used for? There is improvement at all. Bunch of cameras installed I guess. I think safer equipment would have been a better purchase. Electrical fires, derailments, switch problems, doors that won't open, filthy seats, chunks of tunnels falling off, chunks of old rusted metal falling off the decomposing trains, and the list goes on. We can't afford to wait any longer for real results.
While in no way am I
While in no way am I attempting to defend the T, you have set up a bit of a false dichotomy here:
Things like the new cameras everywhere were not paid for by the MBTA, rather through federal grants from DHS, which obviously HAD to be spent on cameras.
Even if the T could have spent that money on equipment instead, a single trolley costs several million dollars. A camera system might cost $10k-$20k. It wouldn't have helped much.
Where do you think federal
Where do you think federal grants and other governmental funds come from? Those federal funds and federal grants should have been allocated to bail out the MBTAsince it couldn't fix itself.
Federal grants come from
Federal grants come from various federal government agencies, with the stipulation that they be spent on specific things.
The MBTA's operating funds and most of its capital funds come from the state government.
Yes, if you trace it all back far enough it largely comes from the taxpayers, but that's completely missing the point.
I had to get off @ Kenmore and take a shuttle bus to Copley
around 2ish. It was an effing nightmare. Masses of people, and not enough trains for the huge crowds at Copley. The city was very packed today. It was a terrible time for something like this to occur.
Same with the Longfellow Bridge redline shutdown weekend of the Bruins finals. There were huge crowds and that also was a nightmare going shuttle buses from Park, around the common, up Beacon past the state house, then down Bowdoin t, down Cambridge to the bridge. Unfortunately, if if they wanted to allow traffic direction change on Charles St that day, which would have greatly allieviated the situation, they couldn't because of the traffic island that blocks access onto the west side of Charles St from the east.
The whole thing is just fucked up and bullshit.