Imagine if Wellington station were built to be functional

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'04

By mixylplik3 - 8/14/09 - 3:53 pm
#1

I passed through Wellington on my way to the Sox parade in '04. It was a mob scene, to say the least. That narrow corridor from the parking lot was completely full of people. They only had one booth open and if I recall a number of the automated machines were broken. We walked to the front and ultimately walked right through an open gate.

Back when I worked in the city, I used Wellington. I came from the parking garage side and recall that one of the two people movers always seemed out of order. Do those still break down a lot? I remember workers at the time talking about how they were going to build a covered walkway for the impatient or when the trams broke. Did that ever get built?

No more people movers at Wellington

By Ron Newman - 8/14/09 - 3:58 pm
#2

Now it's just a very long pedestrian bridge. I wish they'd installed moving sidewalks.

In 2004 there weren't any Charlie machines yet, so I'm not sure what you mean.

IIRC, Wellington station was one of the first places

By roadman - 8/14/09 - 4:05 pm
#3

the T tried out automatic machines to dispense tokens.

Correct, they were automatic

By mixylplik3 - 8/14/09 - 9:49 pm
#4

Correct, they were automatic token machines.

And

By Trixie - 8/14/09 - 10:07 pm
#5

And, in my 3 years of using wellington every day, they were out of order more than the switches on the red line.

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