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By adamg on Tue, 12/17/2013 - 6:41pm
Snow, dead trains on the Orange Line and commuter rail, tonight had it all. Some examples:
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Snow, dead trains on the Orange Line and commuter rail, tonight had it all. Some examples:
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And just so us blue line
And just so us blue line riders aren't made to feel left out there are severe delays due to a medical emergency at GC.
I was afraid there was going
I was afraid there was going to be a riot in the busway at Harvard - I waited an hour for a 71 bus, the last twenty minutes of which was spent with a bus parked in the tunnel, refusing to take passengers, saying "Route 71, service to Watertown Square" over and over while a grown man literally wailed at the lack of a bus. No explanation, of course, from anyone, including the driver of the parked bus the gods had clearly sent just to torture us.
Near riots at Oak Grove, too.
I got to Oak Grove at about 8:30PM. My jaw dropped as the Reading bus I was to take pulled in to the busway on (more or less) time. But then I heard shouting and swearing, and I quickly realized that this Reading bus was an imposter -- it was actually heading to Malden. People were actually hitting the bus and I didn't blame them. There were no station officials to tell us when the *actual* Reading bus was to come. The accosted driver of the imposter bus assured us that it would come "shortly". I gave it a few minutes and decided to walk home -- it was faster!
Five to six miles an hour
All my buddies on FB are checking in with reports of "progress" in traffic that all pretty much amount to 5 mph.
We left Davis Square at 4:15 and it took us 40-45 minutes to get home. We can drunkwalk that distance in 40-45 minutes (although I took a different route to avoid some known bad news areas). No complaints here, though - we have friends who have spent hours getting home by train and bus or by car tonight.
UGH!
VA Hospital to Jackson Sq: ~10 mins
Orange Line, Jackson Sq - Haymarket: ~50 mins (severe delays)
Waiting for a 426: ~40 mins
426, Haymarket - Revere: ~90 mins
~3.25 hours
Usually takes one hour.
home sick
So glad I stayed home sick today (yes I am sick!)...
I can't imagine what the 111 was like...
Not too bad
The 111 was certainly delayed, with reduced Haymarket departures. But it wasn't all that much worse than usual, I think.
A friend of mine posted that
A friend of mine posted that she was getting out of work early because of the snow. I kinda scoffed, because, um, four inches of snow. But, now I can see why.
Horrific. Also reminds me of a winter evening about five or six years ago when late-afternoon snow royally f'ed up the evening commute. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about?
December 13, 2007
I think it was the 13th.
I know a lot of people who were allowed to leave early today, but ti didn't seem to help much.
If I remember correctly the
If I remember correctly the early release actually made it worse because those cars got stuck in the worst of the snow. Everyone would have been better off to have just stayed at work and waited.
12/13/2007
I only remember because I covered the Bruins game that night and hardly anyone showed up.
A certain schools superintendent ...
... nearly had her head handed to her as there were kids (and their teachers) still at some school until 11pm. They broke into locked freezers to feed the kids dinner while they waited for buses stuck in traffic.
Yes--I remember that, too!
Yes--I remember that, too!
Kingston Kaos
My cousin who is a Kingston cop warned me to be careful coming home tonight as a gang of thugs beat a commuter pretty bad last night and left him in a snow bank and until paramedics could treat him and take him to the emergency room at Jordan Hospital
And just as the snow was ending
the MBTA decided to shut down the Green Line between Park Street and North Station for
no apparent reasonmaintenanceOf course, the fact the MBTA decided to shut off the Brattle Loop (westbound from Haymarket to eastbound to Haymarket through Government Center station) so they can store equipment for the Government Center project - which isn't going to start until at least April now - didn't help matters.
Brattle closure
The Brattle loop track was rebuilt from scratch. The equipment on it was used for its reconstruction. I'm not sure why they have yet to reopen the track, though, since the loop is now repaired AFAIK. Also, depending on where the broken rail was, the Brattle Loop may have proved useless anyway.
Was the Brattle loop really in such bad shape
(as compared to the rest of the track in the Central Subway) that they couldn't wait until starting the Government Center project to completely re-lay the track? Particularly given that it's not used in regular service.
Sounds to me like this is another case of "for the safety and convenience of our employees/contractors" that the MBTA is famous for.