If this had been an actual emergency ...
By adamg - Tue, 11/27/2007 - 4:34pm.
Fire alarms go off throughout South Station at rush hour and nobody seems to care:
... I got off and was thinking, should I get to street level? But there was not one MBTA employee seen telling people "Get out" or "Don't bother. Stay here." Since no one I saw was running for their lives, I stayed. ...
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yeah, there was absolutely
yeah, there was absolutely no one from the T there to even mention anything about it. I even wanted to ask, but I never saw anyone.
It's not just Boston!
I was in Penn Station in NYC last year when all the alarms went off and strobes started flashing. Nobody did anything. I went up to street level, just in case, and there were two of NYC's finest near one of the exit doors.
When I asked them what was up, they just shrugged. When I asked them if they had heard anything on their radios, they just shrugged. Well, one of them gestured to indicate that their radios were off. Neither made a move to even turn on their radios.
Eventually, the alarms turned off and they drifted away. I went back downstairs to the platform.