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The T random-search party came to Davis Square this morning
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Happy Crowded Commuter Rail
I decided to take the folding bike with me today on the Commuter rail, instead of riding the bigger bike to Davis.
Good choice.
I thought briefly about biking from West Medford to Davis because the train I wanted was 10 to 15 minutes late ... and now I'm glad I'm so bloody lazy and that old pink/orange siren song lured me astray for a DD Iced.
On the other hand, I'd love to see how the hut huts would handle Bike Friday or if they would try to tell me I couldn't take it on, etc.
you can't take them on...
...during commuting hours M-F. Something like 7AM-ish to 10-AM ish, and 4PMish to 7PMish (I don't remember, nor care, about the exact hours. The curious can easily find it on the MBTA website.)
You can take folding bikes on the T at any time
Swirly's comment is a bit confusing, but I guess that either her larger bike is also folding, or else she was going to get on the Red Line after 10 am.
True
My co-worker takes a folding bike with him most days, on the commuter rail from Worcester.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Folded Syntax Disambiguation
I own both a full size commuter bike and a folding bike. I can and do take my folder on all modes of transit at any time.
I had the folding bike with me today at West Medford station because I planned to take it aboard the commuter rail. When I saw the announcement that the Lowell Line commuter rail was delayed 10-15 minutes, I contemplated riding the folder from West Medford station to Davis, as that might mean getting to work sooner.
That's why I speculated that the Freedom Search Team would demand that I not take my folding bike aboard the Red Line at rush hour. Fridayers and Dahonians and Downtubists and Bromptoids all chat amongst ourselves in stations, and such arbitrary stupid on a random search day is not unheard of.
(I generally don't bring the folding bike to Davis because it doesn't lock very securely, doesn't haul two bags of groceries well, and it isn't worth dragging onto the red line when my work place is a block from a stop.)
Re-deploy the officers?
Perhaps the MBTA Police should redeploy those officers into the stations to have a real effect on crime (like, say, preventing forcible rapes) instead of having a pretend effect on terrorism.
Call me crazy.
You're crazy
Preventing rapes doesn't give them any excuse to get grant money and shiny new truncheons from DHS.
Or how about preventing bicycle thefts at T stations?
In this LJ comment someone said: "wheelworks also told me to NEVER EVER park at the bike racks behind Davis Square. they said it's much better to park in front of a store b/c thieves won't know if you'll be coming out at any second. whereas with a rack by the T, they assume you're gone for the day."
See also this earlier LJ post. And this one, too.
Coming to an MBTA stop near you....
It's hit too close to home already! It's unbelievable how the American public at large has absolutely and totally allowed our civil liberties and rights to just be trampled on with no end, and to be thrown down the crapper. What fools the American public at large has been. Remember the old adage from Ben Franklin " S/he who willingly gives up liberty for temporary security and safety deserve neither". The only trouble is that I'll get screwed too.
To get onto another subject: Whether McCain or Obama becomes president of the United States, there's no stopping it. The American public at large is screwed..bigtime.
If I saw this I think I
If I saw this I think I would have walked to Porter or Alewife.
So would that guy with the thick coat.
The one with a bomb around his torso. If you can refuse a search and leave, and you can walk to a nearby station, or take a bus to a nearby station, what is the point?
If you're wearing your bomb, you could walk right in
A link to what the T can and can't do was posted on the Davis Square page - apparently they can't search your person (including pockets), only your bags. Unless they can drum up "probably cause."
yep, especially since they all park their cruisers nearby
I remember a year or two ago, you could spot one of these 'surprise' checks because they'd park half a dozen cruisers...because they were too effin' lazy to walk their fat asses to the station.
I wonder if they ever brought out the Blinky Bus of Black Doom?