An open letter to the MBTA
Dear MBTA,
I love your convenience and relatively low cost but for the love of God, why do you insist on moving at snail's pace or as my cute girlfriend put it: "using a tiny village of mice to pull the train?" I know it's crowded and lots of people want to get on the train but don't you think that when people are standing nose-to-nose (literally) perhaps their goal is NOT to spend as much time as possible on the train inching from station to station? Also, when you refer to "signal problems," why don't you just cut the BS and tell us that you have no reasonable explanation for the delay but there will indeed be one? And furthermore, why do you insist on hiring somewhat grumbly drivers who seem to think that shuddering to a whiplash-inducing halt is the best way to keep a train of commuters in line? Also, if you ask me one more time to weave my way through a crush of humans to pay my fare at the front of the train, I may very well snap and start pushing old ladies hanging on for dear life.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Comments
Uh..
You know you're supposed to pay at the front, and walk into the train, right honey?
I don't get why you people find this so difficult. Get on the train in the front, move into the back. The probably is educating the people who get onto the train and just STAND THERE and do nothing. I like to shout out, "Why is no one moving? Are there black kids in the back?" that usually embarasses the white people enough so they'll move.
In the front, out the back. Learn it.
Also, if the train is too crowded...WAIT FOR ANOTHER ONE. Everyone acts like it is the last train ever! Yes, I know it is cold outside, so wear a better jacket. If you have to absolutely catch this train to make a flight/meeting/hookup, leave 20 mins earlier.
The worst part of public transit, is the public.
And put your damn backpack on the floor, dammit!
screeching
speaking of T complaints...
How about the discomfort and possible cumulative damage to my sensitive ears from the screeching of steel wheels against steel tracks? Isn't there a way to construct trains and trolleys so they don't produce that horrible screeching? And the brakes on some T buses are just as awful. I think they just don't care about this issue.
You know what would stop the screeching?
Some wheels made of rubbah. RUBBAH!
And a caaawwfeeee daaaahk.
Graphite
Putting graphite on the tracks regularly would take care of this.
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
That advice only works on the Green Line...
...not the Orange, Red, or Blue lines. The Orange Line inches along so slowly, a team of tiny mice would be faster, and every single day it's either "signal problems" or "switching problems." (Except on one memorable rainy afternoon, when the reason announced for the snail-train was "the tracks are wet." Above-ground train. Rainy day. Of COURSE the tracks are wet.
Boring rant - why bother
Boring rant - why bother posting this?
RE: Boring Rant
Agreed. T-Bashing is so 2006.
Maybe this post is just a troll?
That's funny
Anonymi complaining about trolling.
Good News
I called Dan Graubaskas, and asked him to send a personal train for you. The driver will wait at your local station until you're ready to go, and we will email you the driver's cell number. This driver will take the train to come pick you up even after the service has stopped running. The other trains can all be routed onto the other track while you're getting on, and the transit police will clear the platforms so that no one will come within 30 feet of you.
Don't call the driver's
Don't call the driver's cell. We know what happens.