Red Line defeated by snow again
By adamg - 2/3/09 - 11:04 pm
55 minutes from Park Street to Harvard this afternoon rush.
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55 minutes from Park Street to Harvard this afternoon rush.
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Ugh
I kept hearing this damn "There is a disabled train at Downtown Crossing" while I was AT Downtown Crossing, with no train to be found. Luckily I was just going to south station, but regardless, missed my train.
DTX to South Station
The best way to get between the two is to walk. If you end up stuck, it is only three blocks - surface at the Chauncy Street portal, walk straight south on Summer street (past the CVS on your right). You will see it straight away.
I understand not wanting to walk in the weather we had last night, though. The sidewalks were pretty clear in the financial district, but the streets were already slushy and a bit tricky to navigate.
Yep
Normally I do. In fact if I take the Green Line, usually I'll run underground from Park to DTX and then go up and run from DTX to south.
It was really more of a matter of timing for me anyway, I got to DTX at 6:10 for a 6:15 train. I knew if a train was there and I ran when I got off, I could make it, but when they were running the delay announcements, I figured there was no way I'd make it running above ground.
There actually was a
There actually was a disabled train - it was stuck in the tunnel between Downtown Crossing and Park St. My roommate was on it and she said they sat in the tunnel for almost half an hour.
Thanks
Thanks for that info. I was pretty curious about what the hell they were talking about, must have been right around the bend coming into DTX.
Walking in a winter wonderland
It was slippery going walking to Haymarket, the express bus was so late it was early, and some beautiful hiking that last half-mile though a few inches of sparkling snow to get home. I did slip and fall once, but no damage.
The alternative was to take the T to Kendall and get the car. Sounds like my CalamaT radar was working again.
Yep
It took me over two hours to make it from the Arlington St. T to Arlington, MA. I could've walked it in that time.
We had two disabled trains and a medical emergency during my epic journey last night. This morning, more disabled trains.
I don't know what the deal is.
Mostly Busted Trains Ahoy
It took two hours from South Station to Davis Square last night, and that included the disabled train at Park Street and the medical emergency at Harvard that stopped my train between Central and Harvard. And then we stopped between Harvard and Porter for fifteen minutes without so much as a sorry.
This morning it took me an hour to get from Davis to South Station. There was police action at Porter, apparently, though by the time we made it to Park Street the announcements in the station were just mentioning a disabled train. Until I see some kind of police log entry, I'm going to just keep assuming they're just making up excuses every time something goes wrong.
This is a train commute which usually takes under a half hour when the MBTA isn't sucking out loud. The past 48 hours, though, the Red Line seems to have just fallen over and refused to get up.
I agree!
Has anyone actually seen these accidents or been on the disabled train? If you're late, you're late but don't lie.
well..
At least it hasn't fallen into the river, yet.
Disabled Train at Downtown Crossing
I was at Park street and actually saw the disabled Red Line train from Downtown Crossing being pushed forward by another empty Red Line train. Of course by the time they got the trains pushed out of the way quite a crowd was waiting, and we all jammed ourselves onto the next functioning train that came.
That train made it to Porter, and then the T operators decided to kick everyone off the train. From what I could gather, there was nothing wrong with our train, but the "pusher" train ahead of us was having trouble pushing the broken train up an incline; evacuating our train was actually a safety measure in case the trains ahead of us came rolling backwards. Finally, the train operators decided that the trains ahead of us were out of the way and we could reboard our train.
All of this was on top of having been on two Red Line trains that became disabled during my morning commute! It was NOT a good day.
That's "Mobility Challenged" Train ...
:-p
ah.
i was wondering how i got random people following my twitter account.
i'm still impressed that people laughed when the voice came over the speaker with "attention passengers, the next red line train will not be taking passengers." the whole place was a zoo - too many people on two platforms. at least people were nicer than i expected.
Blaring klaxons of doom at Arlington Street station
Mike Mennonno details his godawful commute last night, which began at Arlington Street: