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Ah Somerville
There are already complaints that the stations are inadequate because you have to stand outside while waiting for the trolley just like:
1. All of the other Green Line stations surface stations and Science Park,
2. All the commuter rail stations besides the terminals and Back Bay.
3. Malden, Oak Grove, Wellington, Sullivan, Community College.
4. All of the Blue line northeast of Maverick.
5. Red Line - Charles, North Quincy, Wollaston, JFK, Savin Hill, Fields Corner, and all of the Mattapan line.
Poor people. Someone should have reminded them this is not Greenpoint before they moved in and drove the rent went up.
I can't wait for the first complaints about the Community Path not being up to "their" standards as well.
when did the GLX go into house listings?
I had a related thought -- what's the earliest that you remmber seeing mentions of the GLX in rental or real estate listings?
A friend mentioned seeing ads asking you to "picture walking to your new green line station" as early as 2010.
I moved to the area in 2008
I moved to the area in 2008 and looked at an apartment in Somerville that was billed as being convenient to the train. When I finally got there, having walked roughly 30 minutes uphill from...Porter, it probably was...I pointed out that there was in fact not a subway anywhere near there. The person renting out the apartment got indignant and said the subway station nearby would be opening "any day now".
That sounds about right. It
That sounds about right. It was well established in 2013/2014 when I was looking to buy and had been already priced out of Somerville.
Mountain of complaints or just a mole hill John?
Just curious its a documented high volume of complaints and not something you overhead at Market Basket.
Course you could always poll each and every Somerville resident to get that info, pull up those bootstraps, grab a clipboard and get to it!
Um,
https://twitter.com/smargaretc/status/1600847891194470400?s=20&t=EMPUHbZ...
https://twitter.com/just_steve_h/status/1600194647409688584?s=20&t=EMPUH...
https://twitter.com/ljs39/status/1601719974632230912?s=20&t=EMPUHbZ8rGj7...
Whiny maggots abound.
O.M.G.
People are COMPLAINING about TRIVIAL things and being pissy on TWITTER?!?
I knew Musk was going to destroy the site but I never thought it'd get that bad.
/S
Seems like a small sample size John
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Restrooms?
I got to use a T restroom a couple of times. Once in Ruggles Station and once in Forest Hills Station. Basically you'd better have a note from your doctor authorizing you to use it because you have a medical condition and if you really want to use one the note better state what the medical condition is. The only station I know of that has public restrooms (no questions asked) is South Station in the commuter rail platform waiting area.
I've used the one on the
I've used the one on the platform at Central once or twice when in desperate straits. It's not great, but somewhat better than wetting your pants. Bring your own sanitizer and toilet paper.
The Forest Hills toilets are very much open
My son decided that he needed to heed the call of nature on the way home one day last summer. You just walk in, do your business, and go on your merry way. To this day, he still remembers the smell. Oh, the smell.
Please share
Where are the Forest Hills Station public restrooms @Waquiot? Are they in that new section across from the main station?
WTF?
Past the fare gates. Men’s room to the right. I assume the women’s room is on the left. Been there since 1987.
it’s not that they’re whining, is it?
you’re the biggest whiner here lol. it’s that you don’t agree with what they’re whining about.
Oboe Boy!
Haven't heard from you in a while. Too busy playing company Christmas parties lately?
there he is
i have been doing lots of holiday parties, yes. what are you up to when you’re not screaming into the void?
Fair criticism.
Just because things suck at other stations shouldn't mean they couldn't have fixed things on the new ones.
And more bus shelters too please.
You don't really have to stand outdoors at Charles/MGH
You can stay inside the station building enclosure until your train arrives.
We are in New England
I don't think it's too much to ask for these stations to be fit for purpose and take into account the local weather. Doesn't make sense to me that the new stations have to suck just because all the old ones do. Those stations should also be brought up to decent standards as well.
Rode by Ball Square this afternoon
SQUEE! Oh hell froze over to the yes!
Less of a game changer for me than for friends who have been waiting 20 years for this. Also huge for my son's partner who is gaining 30 minutes each direction and getting a one-seat ride to work at Prudential.
And I suspect ...
our own Ron Newman was first in line. :-)
I'm taking it now
And I was told there was about 300 people for the first train at Medford/Tufts this morning at 5am. I considered getting up early for it but figured I've been waiting 30 years, I can wait another 3 hours.
Not at 5 am, no
I seriously thought about it, but it was dark, cold, and icy, and at that hour no buses were running yet, so I would have had to walk all the way from Davis Square. I did go to the Ball Square event around 7:30 am, and then the Tufts event at 10 am.
Good for Boston but let’s also fix the T!
I wanted to be more excited about this finally happening, but kind of hard to get psyched on the T for those of us have to take the Red Line every day at rush hour.
Many readers may not realize the trains now come every 20 minutes if you’re lucky and there are track slowdown zones. Of course we’ve all given up hope on having the new train cars anytime this decade.
What we should all be aghast
What we should all be aghast at is that it took 32 years to do this. Stop being blinded by the BS.
In 32 years they could have made our train infrastructure on point...not a crumbling mess.
But please, build more things for cars...it's done us so well.
Longer than that
There was talk about "when the Green Line gets here" when I lived in Winter Hill in the mid 80s.
Supposed to be part of the Big Dig Remediations
But then Coakley's Connected Conspirators spent all the money on the highway and said OOPS and Charlie enabled them - only to hove the Conservation Law Foundation rub their noses in their federally required duties.
It should not ever take so fucking long. Transit should be a sufficient priority that it shouldn't factor into housing decisions.