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Fellow riders rescue man who fell onto commuter-rail tracks at Back Bay
By adamg on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:16am
Edited to reflect fact incident was on commuter rail, not Orange Line.
Jessica Keener reports on an incident shortly before 10 a.m. on the outbound side at Back Bay station:
My husband + 3 others just pulled a blind man who fell down into the train tracks + saved this man's life in Boston today!!!!
Not long after, she tweeted at acting MBTA General Manager Jonathan Davis:
My husband & 3 other men saved a man from Back Bay train tracks. No MBTA people were there. Why not???
She later added:
Back Bay train sta. about 15 people on platform. Blind man was a good 50 yards away toward Clarendon, one man trying to pull blind man out
My husband and 2 other men heard cries of help, sprinted! to man helping blind man, they all pulled together. So inspiring!
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There seem to be no MBTA
There seem to be no MBTA employees at the faregates any more either. At least whenever I go there. I've seen fare evaders go into the stations for free now. Yesterday morning (10AM) at Government Center a guy was clapping at me as he was waiting for me to go through the gates with my CharlieCard so he could piggyback. No T worker in sight... not even at the platforms.
Employees can't be everywhere.
Does she really expect the T to station an employee on every platform on the system?
Now, if she's arguing there were no T employees at BBY Station, that's a huge issue for several reasons - but I highly doubt that is her complaint.
Kudos to her husband and the other good samaritans. Maybe this is one of those situations where 4 people take a bow and nobody has to take any blame?
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They were asleep ;)
I rarely if ever, see T staff
I rarely if ever, see T staff on the platform at Back Bay.
To the T's credit, there were
To the T's credit, there were 2 workers on the platform when I went through around 815am this morning at Back Bay. Maybe when the rush hour ends they pull everyone back, or the 1 person who was supposed to be there was elsewhere.
I've fallen and can't...........
Kudos to Jessica's husband and the three other good people! I have to agree with others that if we really expect a T person on every platform at every minute during operating hours then we may as throw more money away.
The four folks did their civic duty and deserve a pat on the pack. The T was not to blame here.
So inspiring! It moved her to publicly call out the MBTA.
Even though there's no evidence the MBTA did anything wrong.
She's a real peach.
In an emergency
Given that this story is based on Tweets, it's hard to get any sort of refinement on what her complaint is. While it probably isn't necessary to have an MBTA employee on every platform, it shouldn't be impossible to find one, fairly easily, in an emergency situation. Others have mentioned the issue of fare dodgers. In the case of a fire, and assault, or as with this case, someone falling and possibly injuring themselves, prompt attention from an MBTA employee seems common sense.
On several occasions I have seen absolutely no evidence of MBTA personnel at the Prudential station. This just seems to be totally lacking in any level of security to me. (I wonder if those mad bombers just waiting for a TSA-free station to be available are aware of this?)
You're conflating issues
My position is unassailable. She presented no evidence in her tweets that the MBTA engaged in malfeasance or nonfeasance. It's not my issue that a professional writer couldn't be bothered to communicate her complaint in a more effective and comprehensible manner. Your concerns about other stations may be valid, but irrelevant to the discussion of what happened today at Back Bay Station.
Globe link with
Globe link with video
http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2012/01/goo...
I've maintained that the
I've maintained that the TSA/T Police bag checkpoints make passengers less safe.
The checkpoints typically comprise five or six cops, all at one entrance. What fraction of the total on-duty T Police officers is that?
I'm not saying a T cop would have been there right away to respond to an emergency situation at Back Bay, but isn't it safer to have six cops spread throughout the system rather than all at one entrance?
We all need to be there
to help each other out and not rely that a cop or staff member will take care of it all the time.
Guy was on his phone
Just saw the segment on Channel 7 news. The guy said he was looking at his phone when he went over.
He was blind.
How could he be looking at his phone? Or did she just make the blind part up too?
My sister is blind and uses
My sister is blind and uses her iPhone perfectly well. The built-in VoiceOver features make it eminently accessible to visually-impaired users.