Major meltdown at South Station as commuter-rail signals go kablooie

Frazzled commuters report they're rapidly reaching the boiling point this rush hour as delays mount on outbound trains due to signal problems. Jennifer DePolito tweets:

Holy crap. Every train at south station is delayed and there are a million people here. WTF.

Comments

That explains a lot

I was working late tonight and a bunch of people came back into the office to work for a while after I thought I saw them leave.

I got an email last night

I got an email last night saying that the Fairmont line was on or near schedule due to signal failure.

Sadly, that type of "all clear" message

is all too common. My all-time favorite in that vein was an Orange Line message that read:

"Orange Line now on or near schedule due to an ill passenger at Forest Hills"

Not sure if it's just because the person updating the messages doesn't take the time to properly edit their "cut and paste" of the previous message, or it the T does it deliberately to remind people as to why the delay occurred.

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