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Spritzing up Hynes station

By adamg on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 9:28am
Repainting Hynes station on the Green Line

Jeff Tamagini watched workers give Hynes on the Green Line some fresh paint this morning.

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By Lunchbox on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 9:40am.

How many T workers does it take to paint a pole?

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By Cliff clavin on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 9:46am.

LOL - Was thinking the same thing.

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By Anonymous on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 5:36pm.

A coat of fresh paint will spruce up the place.

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By DTP on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 10:51am.

Did you ever consider that maybe the second person is necessary to help carry supplies?

Or maybe to help keep an eye on things so that the guy painting doesn't accidentally hit someone walking by with the pole?

Or maybe they had a list of maintenance tasks that shift, several of which required two people.

Or maybe the T requires maintenance crews of 2 people just in case something happens to 1? (Slips and falls, back injury, etc)

This is not just the T wasting tax dollars.

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By JeffT on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 10:59am.

Second guy was a flagman to alert incoming trains there was a person working next to the tracks. There were about a dozen people painting in various parts of the station this morning, but fear not this was the only worker with a secondary person.

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By Michael Fahey on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 11:02am.

Enough with the wise ass remarks about a couple of working guys trying to make a living.

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By Kaz on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 10:10am.

No breathers on the workers, no fans to keep the air moving or off-gas the paint faster...

I'll just be avoiding Hynes for a few days, thanks.

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By anon on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 12:47pm.

The fresh coat of paint keeps the peeling lead paint sealed. The air quality is likely better with drying latex than it normally is in the stations and tunnels with all the heavy metal dust floating around in a confined space.

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By ElizaLeila on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 1:54pm.

act as the fan by pushing air through the station.

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By A on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 12:27pm.

Now the station will be a much nicer place to wait for trains that will never arrive.

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By CopleyScott17 on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 1:37pm.

Now maybe they can send a crew to figure out why there are puddles on the stairs on the inbound side at Copley every day, whether or not there's been any precipitation. It sure as hell can't be from mopping.

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By Waquiot on Tue, 04/11/2017 - 2:39pm.

Take a whiff of those puddles some day.

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By CopleyScott17 on Wed, 04/12/2017 - 8:27am.

...on the street level, at least when the library is closed.

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