State Street vs. Courthouse

By adamg - 3/19/08 - 9:42 am

Yes, it's another episode of "Compare a busy, decaying Blue Line stop to the stunning, rarely used Courthouse stop on the Silver Line." Today's contestant: Fabulously Out There, who reports from the decaying steps leading from the Blue Line to the Orange Line at historic State Street station:

... There is a woman sitting on the stairs and a MBTA dude standing in front of her.

My immediate thought? A drunk? This early. Jesus christ. Then I noticed her business attire clothing and while I am walking down the stairs I am noticing several chunks of one of them crumbled on the floor.......then I pass the lady and she's in tears holding her ankle talking on her cell phone while the MBTA guy talks on his walkie-talkie. ...

Earlier:
Maverick vs. Courthouse.

Comments

I moved here more than two

By Mollynotloggedin (not verified) - 3/19/08 - 1:21 pm

#1

I moved here more than two years ago; I first saw the Blue Line part of State a year before that, and it doesn't look like a blessed renovation-type-thing has been done since then.

And it's not because it's partly an Orange Line stop. Further outlying stops on the Orange Line are in better shape than State: Ruggles, Roxbury Crossing, Stony Brook...they're all fairly basic and not shiny like, say, North or South Station, but the steps aren't falling apart under people's feet.

I think they're in the

By Anonymous (not verified) - 3/19/08 - 1:24 pm

#2

I think they're in the process of renovating State.

Blue Line at State Street

By Ron Newman - 3/19/08 - 1:29 pm

#3

They are extending the platforms so that they can run six-car trains. They're also planning to add additional entrances to the Blue Line level from State Street.

None of this is any excuse for crumbling steps on the Orange Line level, though.

Once you get outbound from Maverick

By cosmo.catalano - 3/19/08 - 1:50 pm

#4

...the Blue line stations seem to be in pretty nice shape. Airport was rebuilt very recently, and when I rode out to the beach last summer, nothing seemed like it was any worse than a litle dirty.

I will admit, however, that other than Revere Beach and Airport, I didn't wait on any of the platforms.

-Cosmo
http://boston.redfin.com/blog/author/cosmo.catalano

Orient Heights is falling apart

By Ron Newman - 3/19/08 - 1:51 pm

#5

but the rest of the stations were rebuilt within the last ten years, and look pretty good.