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Oh, those? Those are just the fire alarms, going off for no good reason

One of these days, alarms will start blaring at a T stop and people will actually pay attention. But not today, and not at Downtown Crossing, Jenny Frazier reports:

... It took me my entire walk up to the Orange Line to realize that not a single person, including myself, batted an eyelash at the heinously loud alarms. Instead we all just continued on our merry Bostonian way. ...

However, there's good news at State Street, where Fabulously Out There reports on how the MBTA has fixed the ankle-twisting stairs between the Orange and Blue lines.

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The alarms at Downtown Crossing frequently squeal for no good reason. Isn't there an effin off-switch somewhere?? Good luck to us when it's "the real thing" - nobody will pay attention - not the riders, not the T employees.

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I once made the Red Line-Orange Line transfer when Downtown Crossing's alarms were going off. That was the time Filene's was on fire.

Naturally, nobody seemed concerned -- certainly not concerned enough to miss an off-peak Orange Line train -- and there was no sign (other than the ear-splitting klaxon) that an inferno raged above us.

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