Did you have fun on the Green Line this morning?
By adamg - 7/24/09 - 8:10 am
William Fleurant tweeted at 8:09 this morning:
greenline inbound @ boylston to park 35m wait so far, we're dry
At 9:17, John Zilch, Jr. wondered:
Copley to Govt Center => 35 min. MBTA, why don't your trains work in the rain? They're underground.
Stephan tweets:
I woke up this morning wondering how I could waste 20 minutes of my life today. Thanks for helping me out, Green Line!
Comments
As I got to North Station (about 8:45)
they made an announcement about 10 to 15 minute delays because of an earlier disabled train inbound at Boylston.
A Heath Street train came in within 3 minutes of my arriving on the platform and, to my amazement, was not very crowded at all (at least until we left North Station). As we approached Government Center, we were held at the "first come first serve" switch for a Riverside train coming out of the loop.
Followed the Riverside train from GC. As we were pulling into Park Street, I heard (over the operator's radio) the dispatcher instruct the following Cleveland Circle train to "Take the fence at Park. We're holding that Riverside for 10 minutes".
Perhaps this is the T's way of avoiding the potential for another rear-end crash in Newton - just spread the trains out as far apart as you can get away with.
BTW, the T alert system failed me again. I never got alerts for either the initial Green Line problem or the subsequent residual delays. However, I did get alerts about earlier Haverhill line problems, so it's not my provider's fault this time.
Riverside troubles too
Waited on the Park St. outbound platform for 15 minutes for a Riverside train; eventually, it came on the opposite track, which meant that the conductor screamed repeatedly ("This is a D-Train, Riverside, D-Train, Riverside"), or something like that...I think my ear drums blew out somewhere in the middle. Anyway, she also said that there were "3 Riverside trains right behind us" when people tried to crowd on (not wanting to wait 15 minutes for the next one)
The incompetence of the MBTA is staggering.
At 8:10, it took me 15-16
At 8:10, it took me 15-16 minutes to get from Copley to Park, where our train was then rerouted. The conductor blamed "heavy traffic," unsurprisingly failing to mention the disabled train.
Do twitterers tend to exaggerate??
I board the Green Line in Brookline at 8:40 a.m. after only a 4 minute wait on the platform. I was downtown in about 12 minutes.
The T Can't Do Anything Right
MBTA Mistake Overpaid Hundreds Of Employees
Had no trouble
Apparently I was travelling just before the trouble set in, but I was running late for an 8am doctor's appointment, headed inbound on the B line from Packard's Corner, just missed one train at 7:30 and had another one within a couple of minutes. Got to my appointment exactly on time.
By the way...
By the way -
"William Fleurant tweeted at 8:09 this morning:
greenline inbound @ boylston to park 35m wait so far, we're dry"
I don't know what happened to the streetcar I was on, or the one that I missed that was just a couple of minutes ahead of me, because I got to Copley at 7:50 and both of those trains should have hit Boylston well before 8:09.
the e from pru stuck at boylston totalled 35+ min to park st
The E from Pru to Boylston (where a roam signal tweeted this mornings wait) was over 35m. some days its a blazing 10/12m.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
Think of days like this ...
Next time we debate raising the fuel tax!
Raise the fuel tax
I certainly never complained about raising the fuel tax....the same enablers in the legislature that turn a blind eye to the incompetence of the MBTA and GM Grabauskas - never even let it come up for a vote.
More delays this afternoon
Posted on the MBTA website at 3:20:
"Green Line service is experiencing 15-20 minute delays due to a switch problem at Kenmore inbound."
Based on recent experience, anybody willing to
bet that the PA announcements and message boards are omitting the "at Kenmore inbound" portion of the message?