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What's going on at DTX? The T seems under a big hex
By adamg on Tue, 01/16/2024 - 10:45am
Rapid transit in Boston this AM. Well, transit. Of a sort. In Copley Square. Photo by Susan Elsbree.
An electrical cable fire at Downtown Crossing shorted out both the Red and Orange lines at Downtown Crossing shortly before 8:20 a.m., so with the Green Line also down for the count due to repairs, the only line running into downtown for a good part of the morning was the Blue Line.
The Boston Fire Department arrived at Downtown Crossing to investigate smoke in the station.
The T reported at 10:47 that the Orange Line was back to the new normal, though, followed by the Red Line at 10:51.
It was so bad the T began extending the Green Line shuttle buses that end at Copley Square to North Station.
Line at Central Square for a ride into Boston, by a roving UHub photographer:
One Red Line commuter reports he got on a shuttle bus only to be kicked off at Broadway - where a T official insisted he pay again.
Handmaid reports Orange Line problems started even earlier, but not because of anything going on at DTX:
It's a nightmare on the T today. Took 75 min from Forest Hills to Longwood at 7am. The 7am OL outta FH went out of service because someone had taken a bowel movement on one of the cars. This is why we can't have halfway decent things that work.
Go Bird adds:
I didn’t have it quite that bad, but waited about 20 minutes for an OL at Green when the power issues started and then had to take a #1 bus that was stuffed with 70 people in full snow gear.
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Comments
How will the City Hall MBTA
How will the City Hall MBTA commuters get to work?
Uh ...
Like everyone else does?
That's a low information fail
The question is how do the employees at the State Transportation Building get to work. Or the T folk on High Street. Are they still at High Street?
If they are DOT
They work from home 3 days a week, plus when the T fails.
The Herald gave us a reminder today
Of the time top managers at the T weren't coming in at all.
The article was about the severance the departed received.
What I would like to see
Every T manager should be assigned a commute from a random location within the system, to be made entirely by using the system, at least once a month.
They should be penalized if they are late arriving, and every February should be "complete the assignment in a wheelchair" month.
Maybe the penalty for late arrival could be waived if they submitted a full accounting of their failure to arrive on time, and what they planned to do about fixing the system that caused it.
I wonder if this would expose the slackers to their own handiwork?
Almost a shame
That Charlie Baker didn't stick around to see the almost-total culmination of his grand vision
On the plus side
At least every college has massive empty shuttle buses blocking traffic everywhere that they don’t let the serfs ride, since god forbid one of their undergrads should walk somewhere.
I believe I have given up on the T for today, try again tomorrow
Unless it is pouring rain when I leave work tonight, I'm gonna walk the 3 miles home. Bet I get there in under an hour. Of course weather prediction is for dropping temps so icy walks will be part of our joy later today. Glad I have my spiked boots on today, especially after almost taking a header on an unshovelled walk at FH this morning, two hours after opening time.