Orange Line on fire again

By adamg on Tue, 01/18/2011 - 12:06pm

Another day, another trash fire, shortly before noon at Downtown Crossing. Extinguished quickly, but power was cut as firefighters entered "the pit" to put it out. And with fire comes residual delays.

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Green Line too

By Kaz on Tue, 01/18/2011 - 12:15pm.

I don't see it mentioned on the site yet, but the Green Line had a train fire at Kenmore earlier too.

Oh, that

By adamg on Tue, 01/18/2011 - 12:31pm.

I filed that under just another Monday on the T, even though, yes, technically, it's Tuesday.

Pshaw

By Kaz on Tue, 01/18/2011 - 3:11pm.

You posted it before 8 AM? And you expected me to see it??

;)

Could I make suggestion to

By Finn on Tue, 01/18/2011 - 12:55pm.

Could I make suggestion to the GM? Either prevent fast food and Metro newspapers from entering MBTA property, or at the very least put a trash barrel at the entrance to the southbound Red Line from the Orange Line pedestrian tunnel, like you have on the northbound side? There's only one trash barrel on the southbound side, and that's mid-way down the platform. Since many fast-food eating teenagers don't move all the way down the platform and stick close to the pedestrian tunnel from the Orange Line, all their trash is ending up on the tracks (or forced into the Metro recycle bin - the closest thing to a trash barrel around). Don't know if this will solve the problem, but at least it will make the area cleaner!