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Crippled trains on Red, Blue lines

Dead train near Central Square for you Red Line fans; broken train at Airport inbound for you Blue Line loyalists.

Huh?

By anon (not verified) | Thu, 10/29/2009 - 3:45pm

where you getting that info? it's not on the MBTA website

They must've cleared the trains then

By adamg | Thu, 10/29/2009 - 3:50pm

Because both were listed on the alerts page when I checked, which I thought to do because of a tweet from somebody complaining how slow the Red Line was.

Yay for fast broken-train getting-outing!

Regarding alerts on the Green Line, I've noticed that

By roadman | Thu, 10/29/2009 - 4:07pm

when alerts are posted then quickly cleared, it's most likely because somebody initially over-reacted in reporting a minor problem (for example, reporting brake smoke as a vehicle fire), thus generating a false alert, and not because a serious problem was quickly resolved.

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