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B Line shut by flaming trash; riders' teeth start to gnash

Smouldering switch on Green Line tracks along Commonwealth Avenue

Around 12:40 p.m., debris sitting atop a switch on the inbound Green Line tracks just before Blandford started to smoulder and then just plain out began burning. From inside an inbound trolley, Lucas Neves watched a T inspector try to deal with the situation before Boston firefighters arrived to douse the hot mess.

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The accompanying image looks like a movie still from the French New Wave - the T inspector leaning in tandem with the windshield wiper, the smudges of city grime mimicking shafts of sunlight illuminating the smoke. Sorry to the people whose commute was delayed and teeth gnashed, but a satisfying slice of city life just the same. A wider shot with the motorman's (or ...woman's) face in the mirror would have been pure Henri Cartier-Bresson. Art happens!

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But, for better or worse, track fires are increasingly a slice of Boston city life.

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...post-war Polish cinema, rather than French. We are dealing with Soviet-style inefficiency, after all, and those Poles seemed to love trains.

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"Raising the bar on the T couplets"

Wonder if Adam could start coming up with T quatrains, sonnets, or limericks...

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