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Dead train at Porter turns commute into a real snorter
By adamg on Fri, 08/19/2016 - 9:12am
Mark is among the waiterati at Harvard.
A Red Line train that left this mortal coil at Porter Square is causing what the T acknowledges are "severe" delays.
Here we go. Morning Red Line delays. Italian tourists in front of me look confused. What's "this is normal" in Italian? #mbta
— Davina Chojnowski (@mobilegurlz) August 19, 2016
This train has moved one stop in the last 45 min. Get it together MBTA.
— Rae (@tawdrylorde) August 19, 2016
Yeah waiting between stations in a packed car for >30min is great. Awesome plan when you know there's a disabled train ahead. Thanks MBTA.
— 7 Bees (@Leitwortstil) August 19, 2016
Laura shows us the ironic sign at Harvard - as if anybody could possibly run on that ramp:
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#rhymetime
#rhymetime
Just Four More Years!
Thanks to the tremendous efforts of the Patrick and Baker administrations, we're only 4-5 short years away from the first replacement Red Line cars. Compared with when the first Europeans came to the Bay Colonies, that's practically tomorrow.
So chin up, riders. You might be screwed today, and you might be screwed tomorrow. But then you'll only have to endure 1,823 times of being screwed before the new trains come in. And then you'll look back, smile, and see the wisdom of all the fare increases for subpar service.
So once again, Thanks Patrick and Baker for waiting so long to order the new trains and then doing nothing to expedite their delivery. I think, deep down, we all know you did the right thing. The pain we're suffering now is really for our own good and we'll soon be rewarded with brand new trains that are failing for entirely new reasons.
More blame for earlier folks
If it takes ~8 years to procure new cars (it does, and is well-known)...
And given that the lifetime of the cars was well known in advance...
It seems like someone in the Weld-Cellucci-Swift-Romney era should have started that procurement.
Next time someone calls Millennials selfish and entitled, remember it was the Boomers who decided to do no maintenance or replacement on anything for 30 years.
Eh, 8 years is very
Eh, 8 years is very conservative. 5 is a closer guess. But it should not take anywhere near how long it has/is/will to get these cars built.
And there are plenty of ways to shorten procurement lead time. Like awarding the contract to a company that already has a factory to build them, and doesn't first have to spend 3 years building one.
And...
...at least by the time the new cars are delivered, the 01800's, pushed years beyond when they should have received a mid-life rebuild, will probably be in precarious condition. Let the fun continue!
even then...
None of that negates the point that the cars were predictably way too old (and in the newer cars, not planned for rehab) by the time Patrick came into office and even then, the legislature did everything they could to take the teeth out of the replacement project.
It took a lot of years of deferring maintenance and balancing the books on the backs of today's Bostonians to get us to this point. The MBTA sure isn't perfectly run, and I have little love lost for today's electeds, but the blame for this runs very deep and I don't intend to let rose-colored nostalgia cover that up.
4 more years, but how many more years until
a fare increase
Dead train crawling
The video...
...sorta answers the question, if that was the same train. She showed an empty set of older cars, followed by an empty set of 01800's. I'm guessing the 1800's were pushing the older cars, which were the deceased set.
So we may suspect it was an older series set which caused the mess, at least.
Coworker decided to walk
...from Central to DTX.
(odds on an evening commute meltdown?)
Rio vs the Red Line
Which subway system is more reliable,safer, and cleaner? Which system is world class and which one is third world?
The mbta can not run a toy
The mbta can not run a toy train set in their basement and they prove it every day !
This is not limited to old equipment that keeps breaking down. Even when the equipment is functioning, they seem incapable of running anything on schedule. The level of incompetence is simply astounding.
Did Adam just find the cause
Did Adam just find the cause of our Heroin epidemic... morning T delays?