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No percussion during rush hour

A Red Line conductor refused to let his train out of Harvard until a paint-tub drummer stopped drumming on the platform during yesterday afternoon's rush hour. Irate riders or somebody finally convinced him they needed to get going, Gary reports:

... The drummer probably couldn't hear the announcement, and giving him a captive audience wasn't going to discourage him. Meanwhile, many of us on the train were close to missing a commuter rail connection in Porter Square; it was between 4:40 and 4:45, and the train was due at 4:50. ...

Of course, this being the T, it would not surprise you to learn that it ultimately didn't matter, since the commuter train was 20 minutes late.

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No percussion while you're rushin'? That's a tragedy. I bet tub-thumping beats the guy I listened to at the Downtown Xing Orange Line station recently who kept singing the same chorus from a bad '80s song over and over while playing a few of the same keystrokes on his synthesizer. "Baby, if you do it/ Take the time/ Do it right./ You can do it, baby/ Do it tonight." He sounded like a 60-year-old Dicky Barrett, too.

My question is, why did the conductor have to get involved? Why couldn't s/he call the new fangled "transit" police and have them usher the guy away?

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This is seriously not okay for the conductor. T musicians ARE allowed, it's not a conductor's job to police them, and it's certainly ridiculous to hold a train in an attempt to influence something happening on the platform (unless perhaps there'd been a violent crime and people on the train were witnesses, which ain't the case here).

When shit like this happens, people should report it to the T. For the Red Line, you can wirte to [email protected], with a CC to [email protected]. It's their "Write to the Top" program, which is largely a scam--but if things are reported, ideally with dates and times and if possible even train numbers), sometimes it'll have an impact. It certainly won't if you don't report.

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That's [email protected]--sorry for the typo.

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