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Orange Line trains not just croaking, now they're smoking
By adamg on Thu, 01/21/2016 - 7:38am
Chris Puopolo was among the Orange Line riders forced to detrain at State Street around 6:30 this morning when the train started smoking. Around the same time, another Orange Line train flatlined at Downtown Crossing.
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How ironic. You just posted
How ironic. You just posted about how our Mbta is the worst ranked in the nation.
While that's ironic
The bigger irony is that we're going to pay 100mil for bridge repair for a bridge that hasn't been open in 2 decades for GE.
Yet we never seem to have any money to fix the T, but if a big corporation wants some tax break or some bennies, money just seems to grow on trees for them and it's given without much hesitation.
There is a whole new fleet of
There is a whole new fleet of cars for the Orange Line on order
And a bunch of Red Line cars, too
To be built in a factory that's under construction by a company that has never built subway cars for the US market before. Even assuming no problems - and the last major orders the T made, for commuter-rail coaches and locomotives, both had problems - we're still at least three years away from riding in those new cars.
Too bad Gov Patrick waited
Too bad Gov Patrick waited until his last year in office to order those cars, and didn't order them in his first.
Then they would turn out as
Then they would turn out as well as I have!
Its not just trains
It's not just the trains I am talking about.. I'm also talking about the maintenance of the system also. Signals, Tracks, Signs, lighting, electrical... the list is very long and lengthy.
Yet we always can afford sweetheart deals for corporations.. never to fix the T. Its always an uphill battle.
So find some way of
So find some way of motivating large corporations to want to pay for transit upgrades. New Balance is building a train station for the MBTA in Brighton because it benefits them. In order to get the CR up to Manchester, New Hampshire is looking to form public-private partnerships with the companies that will benefit from it. The MBTA is now also talking about trying to fund the GLX that way now, too.
People can complain about how things are and how they ought to be, that transit is a "public good" that ought to be taxpayer-funded - but complaining about that is not going to get anything fixed. If you want it to actually get fixed, work with the system you have to get the money coming in.
Except that public-private partnerships
- which are little more than legalized extortion - always wind up benefiting the private concerns at the expense of the public good.
Alanis?
Is that you?
It's like leeeeeeeeeaves on the Fitchburg track
It's like 10,000 D trains when all you need is a B
Don't ya think?
a green line train
a green line train
turned 98
it got winterized
and died the next day
Darius Fleming
Relatedly, a Patriots player was seen kicking in the windows of the smoking Orange Line cars to save passengers.
helipads
for everyone!
Adam I'm continually amazed
Adam I'm continually amazed by your rhyming capacity!
Thanks, but ...
I really wish I didn't have to do so many.
And so say all of us.
And so say all of us.
(But the effort and the seemingly endless capacity for innovation are a bright spot nonetheless.)