Trapped in a train on the Longfellow Bridge

By adamg - 2/5/10 - 9:41 pm

JJ Leslie was among the unfortunate who spent more than 30 minutes in a dead inbound Red Line train on the Longfellow tonight. He live-tweeted the experience:

9:01. MBTA Red Line inbound broken down just before Charles MGH. 30 minute downtime. At least we are not in the tunnel.

9:11. Stuck on the bridge. Now getting a push. One kid just took a leak in a cup. A few people freaked out. Swearing at driver.

9:12. A T staff in uniform but off duty stuck with us. He is trying to rationalze with angry people. Not working.

9:15. Now waiting in the cold for the next train. Lots of people.

9:17. I'd rather be driving a defective Toyota then be squished in this Red Line train right now.

Meanwhile, Greg Staples was on the train right after Leslie's at Kendall:

mack daddy is on the train explaining how to be a pimp.

Comments

people tend to exaggerate

By anon (not verified) - 2/6/10 - 7:51 am

#1

I was on the same train. it was stopped for 15 minutes maximum.... not 30 minutes

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You have the time stamps to prove it?

By SwirlyGrrl - 2/6/10 - 2:19 pm

#2

Tweets come with time stamps. He was stopped at 9:01 and at 9:17. Consider that people won't even think a delay is worth tweeting until they have been stuck a few minutes and that sounds like more than your 15 minutes tops to me.