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Severe weather cripples Red Line
By adamg on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 7:57am
Dead train at Harvard this morning. At 7:45, Melanie Martin tweeted:
Announcement: "Red line trains are delayed due to the severity of the weather outside." Is the sun shining too brightly?
Another Red Line rider e-mailed to note the announcements were warning of 20-to-25 "my-nute" delays (so is that up to 25 really tiny delays?) and that Rachel Kaprelian was sounding a bit too chipper in her RMV announcements. But maybe he misheard that - since he spent 20 minutes standing in the single-digit cold waiting for a bus to the Red Line that never came.
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I got to Alewife about 8:15
I got to Alewife about 8:15 and they were still making announcements about "considerable delays." I got on the train (which wasn't too crowded) right away, the doors closed, and we made the three stops to Harvard without any delay.
In the thick of it...
I got to Davis at a few before 8am to a pretty full platform and it seemed they were running the initial announcement regarding the delay and the updated one with more information. So about every 2 minutes we got to hear both. It got hold, each time it beeped hoping it was announcing an approaching train. I rode a packed train to Park but they were communicating pretty well.They even explained that we had to stop before Harvard because of at rain crossing from outbound to relief the congestion. The wait wasn't so bad considering we knew the next stop wouldn't bring more people shoving themselves into the already packed cars.
Got to Porter...
...at 8:00 AM. Saw that announcement. Immediately turned around, walked back up stairs, and walked to BU (about 1 hour). At least it's not cold out or anything.
It's really frustrating that
It's really frustrating that we just spent millions of dollars on an announcement system which has all these glitches (out of date announcements, alternating two different announcements, and mispronouncing common words).
Well, I find it far more frustrating
that MBTA management has been placing a much higher priority on providing these announcement systems (and the web site and the T-alerts) then they have been in actually operating and maintaining the trains.
How much would you pay?
I suppose they are going to magically fix everything with fartgas and rainbows, with the help of smurfs and unicorns, of course.
We know your "opinion" by now. It isn't helpful. At least honest announcements and web apps allow people to reroute their commutes before they spend hours in tunnels.