Today's "E"xcuse for forcing folks
By roadman - 8/20/09 - 4:01 pm
to ride the #39 bus instead of the streetcars.
Green Line "E" line service is being diverted at Brigham Circle due to heavy traffic and earlier adverse weather conditions. Route 39 buses will make local stops between Brigham Circle and Heath Street. 8/20/2009 3:44 PM
Curious that I've NEVER seen an announcement that states they're diverting the #39 buses due to heavy traffic or adverse weather.
Comments
what adverse weather?
I heard a big thunderclap around 2:30, but there was never more than a sprinkle of rain.
It poured for about 15
It poured for about 15 minutes in East Cambridge and then the sun came out again.
Same in Roxbury
Couple of booms and zaps, then heavy rain just long enough to water my plants for me, then back to sun.
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Also
They rarely announce anything about a bus. With something running on tracks it's a bit more obvious that the whole line can't be running properly when one car is sitting there dead. It's so commonplace to see a bus on the road that's not taking passengers, or for buses to be stuck in traffic, so they don't feel a need to justify why there's been no bus for an hour.
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
They have actually started
They have actually started posting quite a few bus delays at MBTA.com for the past few weeks. Any time a bus breaks down, it now seems to result in an alert getting sent out for the route. I actually saw one alert this morning for a delay on a route because a driver did not report to work.
They actually will deadhead
They actually will deadhead Route 39 buses from Back Bay to Forest Hills or Forest Hills to Back Bay via Columbus, Tremont, or Washington Streets if they really get screwed up schedule wise.
Sort of hard to deadhead a streetcar from Heath St. back to to Lechmere without following Huntington Ave. If there was any sort of flash flooding on the Riverway it probably resulted in gridlock for a time on Huntington from Brigham Circle to South Huntington & Huntington. If half of the streetcars on the line got stuck in that segment, it might make it hard to maintain proper headways to Lechmere.