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Red Line train that kept somebody from seeing a play about the T may have been disabled by morons
By adamg on Sun, 06/23/2024 - 11:55am
Yesterday, we recounted Trevyn Langsford's saga about missing a performance of a Somerville musical about the T because he was on a Red Line train behind another Red Line train that had died near Charles/MGH, and then he and everybody else was ordered off so his train could push the disabled train out of the way (well, to a train yard).
We later heard from Laura Dickerson, who was on the train that died. She reports:
I was on the train that stopped. One of the drivers said that someone pulled the emergency brake. I can't vouch for that, but I missed my mammogram appointment because of it.
At the time, the T reported Red Line delays due to a "disabled" train at Charles/MGH, but did not specify how it came to be disabled, only that "Personnel are working to move the disabled train at this time."
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The world doesn't revolve
The world doesn't revolve around your schedules.
Nor yours
Checkmate!
Please, please...
...tell me that was the sound of the banhammer coming down
Seconded
Let's hope it was a nice, healthy, Gallagher-smashing-a-large-watermelon kind of ban-hammer.
No such luck
He kicked off the firefighter thread at 3 am with one of his patented "why do you even exist" threadfarts
I would have said
I would have said gfy to gfy, but that's just me.
Remember that
When you are stuck in traffic.
Oh, wait ... you never leave mommy's basement except when the $#&@* won't bring the hot pockets down.
I've heard people called trolls
There was the fish guy, who became silent during COVID (dun dun DUN), and that Scumquistador dude, who was pretty amusing. But this guy always seems like he's genuinely trying to be a troll, and I find that intriguing. Tell us more about yourself, man. You're either 17 or 71 and those are my two guesses.
Meanwhile I enjoyed the slow zones today that weren't technically slow zones because there were signaling issues and a disabled train. Anyone seen that movie Sisters by Brian DePalma? Watched it last night for the first time. Wow what a trip.
Why people won’t give up their cars
The outcome of your travel is in the hands of the T vs. driving it’s solely on you.
Both these individuals would have made their scheduled events/apt is they drove.
I take the T at min, 3 days a week, but never if I have something important.
How do you figure that?
I don’t get the “solely on you” part. What control does a car driver have over a crash ahead shutting down the highway for half an hour. Or the city closing streets? Or a game or other mass event letting out a half hour earlier than expected, and hosing up traffic?
Traffic, crashes,
Traffic, crashes, construction, road closures. The list goes on of what could go wrong when driving. Not to mention the tens of thousands of Americans who die every year in car crashes.
Cars don’t drive on tracks
You can take turns or use a GPS. Crazy, I know.
Since when are cars reliable transport in the area
The layout of the city and the streets themselves predate their invention.
The fastest and most reliable, least variable, and efficient way that I've found in 40 years of living in the area is to bike.
Is there a criminal charge for pulling the emergency break?
If the Boston Police responded to the station could they take any action beyond giving the morons a stern warning?
Yes, it's against the law
But it would be Transit PD, not BPD, who would look for the miscreants.
Always always take a taxpayer
Always always take a taxpayer paid EV to work
Or a car that uses taxpayer
Or a car that uses taxpayer subsidized gasoline.
Metaphor?
Numbskulls pulling the emergency brake as a metaphor for "Forward Funding", Big Dig debt saddled, Keolis, CRRC Orange Line cars, GLX, Slow Zones, a string of failed GMs, South Coast Rail, horrible deaths, etc. I think its safe to say the entire SYSTEM has been disabled by morons.
Pretty much every institution in our society...
...has been disabled by morons, or by greedy people: legislatures, courts, political parties, schools, universities, sports leagues, churches, the health care system... Why should public transit be any different?
Why is there an emergency brake accessible to passengers?
I was thinking about this back when the story broke about the runaway Red Line train in Braintree a few years ago. A passenger could have stopped the train via the emergency brake, but had no way to know the train was a runaway.
In fact, it's hard to imagine any situation where a passenger would have enough knowledge to know when to use the brake. So, why is it there? Isn't it just an invitation to mischief?
Situations like Broadway last year
When the guy was caught in the doors and dragged, maybe an emergency brake could have helped? Just speculation, obviously.