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Green Line wire down, causes riders to frown

Dead Green Line trolleys at Park Street

Pining for the fjords at Park Street. Photo by Colin Steele.

Shortly before noon at Arlington, now riders between Kenmore and Haymarket get to enjoy above-ground scenery in shuttle buses.

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...that I didn't have to deal with the Green Line today, but noting that according to the MBTA website, it's still down going on nine hours later.

What exactly will convince the powers-that-be that infrastructure matters, and maintenance isn't a luxury, and public transportation is crucial?

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I got an e-mail at 4:09 PM that normal service had resumed.

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The T needs to get itself straight and reinvest in the hardware and the equipment needed to serve its daily customers everyday. It;s understandable that the Green line is America's first and most oldest subway but that's no excuse not to fix and replace the infrastructure of the line serving customers to and from Downtown Boston. Power and signal problems have been happening on the Green line for the past few years in the area from Arlington to Boylston st tunnel curve that diverts us to shuttle buses above. Upgrades are necessary like faster journeys, improved track and signalling, 3 - Car Trains during rush hours and all door boarding for proof of payment at all street level stops.

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As Howie Carr pointed out in the Herald when Bulger ran the T it worked, under Deval it collapsed. The fact that Howie gave Bulger a compliment shows what a disaster the T has become.

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I'm out of town for a few days so I don't know. Arlington seems an unlikely location to be affected by weather?

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If that, and it all melted pretty quickly, at least on the road surfaces.

I don't think this was a weather problem as much as an aging MBTA problem.

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Why does Uhub say that there are 6 comments for this article but I only see 2?

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The site uses all sorts of caching to minimize the load on the database from non-logged-in site visitors, but not everything gets recached at the same time

So you probably saw the home page just after I'd posted something, which refreshed the home-page cache, which includes the latest comment counts for each post, but before the cached version of the actual post was refreshed.

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I couldn't see your response and the other comments until late Sunday evening.

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In that case, no clue. What OS and browser are you using?

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Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 11. Maybe this is why IE is going away.

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