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If MBCR, CSX, and the MBTA can't get along, or get their s**t together, that's one thing.
And the fact that they didn't alert people until 11:30 am about a train that became disabled at 6:10 am, I dunno. It doesn't really surprise me, being a product of the MBTAMBCRCSX bureau-crazy,
But only two buses?!!! To substitute for an entire inbound train (which was incredibly late)? Have fun tomorrow, Monsieurs Grabauskas and Pesaturo. You might need to put your phones' ringers on mute if you haven't already.
Alerts were posted at the time
I was delayed on the orange line yesterday and noticed at that time (8:30 AM) there were several notices on the T website regarding the status of all the trains on the Worcester Line. I'm not sure what kind of messages were present beforehand though, but I do know that one of my coworkers who takes the Worcester saw the notices beforehand and decided to just drive in. So, I'm pretty sure those alerts were present even before 8:30.
Secondly, I don't know if other people notice this, but why are Worcester Riders surprised about any of this? This is the T were talking about. If you think your special because you get delayed on your train occasionally, I invite you to try out many of the other craptacular services the T provides. You probably have it better than most.
No, Worcester is indeed special!
Sure, most of the system is flawed at times, but Worcester definitely suffers far more frequent delays and outages than the other lines. I mostly ride the Needham line, Orange line, and Stoughton line, and they are, for the most part, on time. From what I can tell reviewing published statistics, Worcester is on time less often that not.
Typical Mass Transit
I normally catch the P504 and arrive in South Station around 7:45 AM. Yesterday, the P502 express out of Worcester ended up becoming the P504 when it arrived in Framingham. The train was packed, had no lights, and was rather warm without a/c. It crawled into South Station at 8:15 yesterday morning.
The only thing that surprised me about the massive delay yesterday was that it was the first time I was impacted. I'm a daily rider.
The commuter rail has been experiencing huge increases in ridership. The route I'm on hasn't even seen additional train cars (or a better selection of double decker and single decker cars) to offset the volume of people. The machinery is old. I'm sure we'll see the rehashed article in one of the papers soon reminding us that the rail infrastructure is old and most of the cars are between 35 and 15 years old.
We need to spend some money on the rail system. I don't konw where we need to trim (we need to fix the bridges, subway, sidewalks and billion dollar big dig as well.)
I guess I'm just thankful that we've only had one of these massive rolling delays so far this summer.
It wasn't just Boston...
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