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Trains fold in the cold
By adamg on Sun, 02/14/2016 - 9:41am
MBTA trains are no different than us - they don't like going out in subzero temps, either. At one point this morning, the T announced "moderate" delays on the Green Line due to "multiple disabled trains." The Red and Orange lines also had delays due to "track" issues. Ari Ofsevit notes the newest cars in the T fleet, on the Blue Line, ran fine - as did the oldest ones, on the Mattapan Line.
The cold proved a problem at Logan, as well. J. Jahn reports:
Delays at Logan because of frozen lavatories on the planes that sat overnight.
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Orange
Around 7am the Orange Line had a dead train at North Station. Waited about 20 minutes and gave up and just had a very cold walk to the office.
I see that the Mattapan
I see that the Mattapan Trolley is working just fine...
Last year there was some
Last year there was some Silver Line cheerleader that kept posting stuff like this.
snowpocalypse
Tell me again how prepared we are for the next snowpacolypse? If it happens again, I have total confidence the trains will continue to run.
from T-alerts:
from T-alerts:
Blue Line experiencing moderate delays due to a wire problem.
Last updated: Feb 14 2016 11:43 AM
This is sensible
any train (or bus) with overhead wires will face speed restrictions once it gets well below freezing, as the wires become brittle in the extreme cold and become prone to snapping.
I once spent an afternoon on a very delayed Amtrak train up from New York in 2004 or 2005 due to extreme cold temperatures. It has nothing to do with the MBTA and everything to do with the metal the wires are made of.
Outfitting these things with
Outfitting these things with heaters I suppose is beyond the MBTA's capabilities, right?
last winter, and today's cold
are, respectively, the most snow ever recorded, and the coldest on record in 60 years.
i'll gripe about the MBTA but i'm not going to disregard the causes either. similar to how i would point out a bullshit cause, i'm not going to ignore it if there are extreme circumstances.
when its so cold that its dangerous to go outside- in a place that its not unheard of for it to be 100 degrees- mechanical failures are bound to happen.
The homeless
Does the city have a policy do deal with the poor souls who live in the subways, are they allowed to stay in the major terminals and are they given blankets and food?
They are taken to "warming
They are taken to "warming centers"