Six Feet Asunder: The red line comes up short
I take the T home from Kendall Sq. most days, inbound across the Charles. Quite often when one gets on the the train around 5, it rockets out of Kendall, only to stop on the bridge, because the driver hasn't bothered to call ahead to see if Charles/MGH is clear.
I'm not surprised that that happened last week after the storms and the big power outage at JFK/UMass. What was absolutely stupendous was the train pulled into Charles/MGH, stopping... six feet from the where it needed to. For five minutes! Didn't open the doors. No possible explanation as to what possibly was in the way of that final distance. No, I didn't get the car#.
I left, not bothering to take a chance on the crawl towards Park St. Hopped in a cab downstairs and zipped along up to Kenmore...
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Good move, Jon.
Sometimes, getting off of the train and hopping a cab to one's destination is the best and only way to go, in that kind of situation.
I can sympathize, because I had something very similar to that happen to me a number of years ago, which I still remember; I was living in Cambridge back then, and I didn't yet have a car. I had an 8:30 a. m. dentist appointment in Brookline's Coolidge Corner. So, I allowed an hour and a half due to necessary train changes and possible delays. Well, the Red Line went smoothly to Park Street, where I then boarded a C train on the Green Line to get to Coolidge Corner. The train I got on was unlucky enough to be extraordinarily slow, and I knew then that I wouldn't make it to my dentist appointment on time if I didn't think of something really, really quickly. So, I got out at the Auditorium Station, hurried upstairs and out to Mass. Ave, where I hailed a taxi cab to Coolidge Corner. I JUST made it to my dentist appointment! whew!!