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Commute kayoed by crippled train at Central
By adamg on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 9:14am
Photo by Eyemadequiet, who announces: Dear MBTA - I'm breaking up with you via text message.
And she's hardly the only Red Line commuter complaining in the Twitterosphere. For example:
Red Line fail. The dilapidated townie morlock kingdom known as the MBTA comes through again!
walking to work from central square. thanks an F load, mbta!
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Empathy
I was at Park waiting for the Red to Alewife... it was hard to look across to the Braintree/Ashmont side... oh so brutal. People packed on the platform like ornery sardines. I don't envy their trip, but I have surely been there before.
PS - for the love of all that is good, please support Blue-to-Red @ MGH. Do you really want my big dopey head crowding up your Green line for one stop?
yes Blue-to-Red
As someone who always rides the Blue - I second the Blue to Red change. I hate disgusting State and it's crappiest change ever...
Your big dopey head
It's usually faster to walk from bowdoin to mgh
Time for the sleeper car service flyers again?
This was a prank that I and some of my friends did in the winter of 1993-4. We printed up flyers and put them out at Alewife advertizing the T's new Sleeper Car Service.
It guarenteed that if you boarded by 10pm, you would get to your job downtown, rested and refreshed, by 8am.
There was, however, some fine print that all but nullified this guarentee, since it was unlikely that the T at that time could accomplish this feat.
We declared victory when all the flyers disappeared by the time the earliest commuter returned in the afternoon.
An idea whose time has come... again
I think you're definitely on to something here. Bring 'em back!
Adam, did you see this?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/200...
Yes, because somebody tweeted it
And thus the circle of life is complete :-).
By Gum!
That makes it a grade-A, all-American, mission critical, professional-grade internet cluster@#$% all around!
Don't be so harsh
Twitter is great as a proprietary, standards-subverting, vapidity-inducing medium. :)
You had me at proprietary ...
What standards does it subvert?
You forgot ...
"aptly named".
I'm sure there is information content in a flock of what my children call "pippety birds" fluttering and twittering, too.
Somewhere.
On the flip side, tweeting makes you vulnerable if a marauding pack of "squawking" herring gulls can form a flash mob and find you more easily.
"I'm not a student. I don't
"I'm not a student. I don't live in bloody Allston. Why, then, is my subway behaving like the B Line during a natural disaster? MBTA fails."
I think this guy is mistaking the B, for the D line. There is a forever a tree down on that damn line. It can be bright and sunny day out, and a tree will just hop on the tracks!!
... During finals