The year in review: Some T delays we went through
What follows is a far-from-complete list of MBTA delays this year - just the ones I set to rhyme:
Snow flies, Red Line dies, 1/2/14
Trains fail, commuters wail, 2/10/14
Trains die, riders sigh, 2/11/14
Trains succumb, riders are glum, 2/11/14
Riders fume and boil as trains leave this mortal coil, 2/19/14
Green Line trolley crosses River Styx; Green Line riders develop tics, 2/19/14
Trains join the choir invisible; riders just get more miserable, 2/20/14
Trains go past their expiration date, once more, riders gonna be late, 2/24/14
Trains fail; can riders bail?, 2/25/14
Trains fail, riders quail, 2/26/14
Trains die, riders ask why, 2/26/14
Trains croak, riders choke, 2/27/14
Trains belch smoke; riders choke, 2/27/14
When presidents arrive, trains take a swan dive, 3/5/14
On the Red Line, those pesky signals go unlit, riders too cold to throw a fit, 3/6/14
Train comes to sudden stop; riders grow tired of this kind of flop, 3/11/14
Grim reaper claims another train, riders continue to feel the pain, 3/14/14
Train gives up the ghost; riders' mornings are toast, 3/17/14
Blue Line switches refuse to switch, riders sigh, their life's a bitch, 3/19/14
Red Line train goes down for the sleep eternal, Red Line riders' journeys become oh so infernal, 3/25/14
State Street fills with smoke, riders cough and choke, 3/28/14
Red Line train bit the dust, riders sighed and cussed, 4/3/14
Red Line train heads for pearly gates; riders left to ponder fates, 4/24/14
Another train expires, at least there were no fires, 5/9/14
Signals flicker and die; Red Line riders just wanna cry, 5/13/14
Riverside Line loses power; that's why riders are so dour, 5/16/14
Blue Line train weighed against Ma'at's feather, Blue Line riders feel under the weather, 5/17/14
Green Line tracks are whack, veteran riders not taken aback, 5/19/14
Orange Line loses some power, riders' tums get all sour, 5/20/14
Signal woes make the trains crawl, Red Line riders just want to bawl, 5/21/14
Switches, doors are fried, commuters fit to be tied, 6/2/14
Train sputtered and died, entire Northeast Corridor now completely fried, 6/9/14
He has a leg up on Fields Corner, 6/9/14
Red Line train needs a casket, riders ready to blow a gasket, 6/11/14
Providence Line riders stranded for an hour; as you can imagine, they're rather dour, 6/11/14
Morning trains get a wake, riders left to stew and bake, 6/17/14
Riders perspire when tracks catch on fire, 6/18/14
Train dies heading west; riders get extra stressed, 6/20/14
As temperature climbs higher, commuters feel like they're on fire, 6/30/14
T says South Station problems not their fault, riders go 'Oy, gevalt!', 7/11/14
Trains crawl, riders bawl, 7/25/14
Orange Line shorts out, makes riders want to shout, 7/31/14
Red Line goes kablooie, commuters' rides get all screwy, 8/4/14
When Blue Line wires collapse, getting anywhere is like shooting craps, 8/5/14
Who do you thwack when signals go black? Blame Amtrak, 8/22/14
When Blue Line signals clock out, riders can only sigh, pout, 8/24/14
Green Line wires come undone, riders know that's no fun, 8/27/14
Orange Line signals suck, riders out of luck, 8/28/14
Red Line train goes to that big station in the sky; riders forced to just sit there and cry, 9/4/14
Red Line plays Godot; riders call it a dumb show, 9/17/14
Red Line another horror show; train slows, then just won't go, 9/24/14
Dead trains on Orange and Red make rush hour a thing to dread, 10/20/14
Just in time for rush hour: Orange Line gets all sour, 10/23/14
Red Line of no use when a goose goes on the loose, 10/23/14
It's ghoulish on the Green Line this morning; your commute is going to die aborning, 10/31/14
Orange Line train exhales its last; riders stuck going nowhere fast, 11/3/14
Trolley goes six feet under, riders pay for its blunder, 11/9/14
Right out of the gate, the Orange Line is late, 11/10/14
What happened to the Fitchburg train? At this point, who can explain?, 11/11/14
Red Line train crosses River Styx; riders left in quite the fix, 11/14/14
Trains everywhere given last rites, commuters know first-hand that bites, 11/24/14
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World Class City Indeed.
A sure sign Boston is a World Class City.
Indeed!
How many other cities do YOU know would have a citizen put its public transit failures into rhyme and verse?
As I thought.
I can give you a new title
Poet Laureate of Bloggers.
In summation
Train service frequently sucked; add in Olympics, we'll surely be...
Thanks, Adam!
These were great.
Is this what "service" is like?
I think I'll stick to my bike.
Thanks!
Thanks for posting these! The broken down T rhymes are hands down my favorite thing about Universal Hub.
Is the T getting worse? Do we need infinite verse?
Looks like I have to put something here, too, to post.
The shortest month has the
The shortest month has the worst problems, whodathunkit