Fire at Charles/MGH station disrupts Red Line service
By Arborway - Tue, 05/01/2007 - 8:25pm.
A fire broke out under the tracks at Charles/MGH station on the Red Line at around 8pm this evening. As of 9:20pm, the second alarm has been called in, the third rail shut down, trains near the station evacuated and shuttle bus service has begun.
Expect disruptions to last through the end of service on 5/1.
EDIT: Red Line service was restored at 10:49pm.
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Is this the fire I smelled
Is this the fire I smelled when I got out of work at the Hard Rock by Back Bay at 8:30ish? It seems kind of far away...
Could be
Depends on how the wind was blowing. We live a lot farther from the ocean than you were from the Longfellow and yet, when conditions are just right, we can smell the salt air.
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roof of the bridge?
I was lucky
Around 9:30 pm, I left the Exploit Boston Games Night at Soul Fire restaurant in Allston, and walked to the corner of Comm. Ave. and Harvard Ave. to begin the first leg of my journey home to Davis Square.
An eastbound Green Line B train and a northbound #66 bus arrived at the same time. I chose the bus, and found out later that this was definitely the right choice! When I got to Harvard Square, the roadway in front of Johnson Gate was lined with MBTA buses substituting for Red Line service. Fortunately, the Red Line was still running the direction I wanted to go -- northbound -- and I got home without incident.
T employees told me there was "a fire at Charles/MGH station". That's a brand new station, and I'm wondering how a fire could happen there so soon.
Homeless man set the bridge on fire
Jiffyschnapps writes:
I was waiting for the bus
Probably because stating that did away with any potential confusion or panic as to why someone would be setting a fire under a bridge. Instead of being perceived as a malicious act, it could be readily understood by many to be nothing more than a mistake.
Overrun by confused people
Rai reports on the scene at Park Street:
Fire takes out high-speed experimental network
All the Internet2 circuits between Boston and New York went poof because of the fire:
No Mooninites Involved
Wunerful. Way to secure your infrastructure there Boston (and Massachusetts as this may have been DCR terrortory)!
Homeless people sheltering under the bridges is not a new issue - and this isn't the first time a camp under the bridge has gone up in flames either. Or even the second time if memory serves. Can we have a big juicy DUH! here for the State Police?
If the guys who placed the mooninites "should have known blah blah blah", one would think that Boston "should know" how to secure their infrastructure from people even climbing under bridges, let alone living under them! Seattle does. NYC does. LA and San Francisco do. Video cameras and barbed wire help you know! In Boston, bridge security consists of "they should have known it was sensitive infrastructure and not done that!".
What happens when somebody who understands it is sensitive infrastructure does heaven knows what? What's going to stop or deter them?
So, are they charging Mr. Homeless with terrorism here? Wouldn't surprise me.
this site would be up in
this site would be up in arms if the mbta police were evicting every homeless person who squats on T property. they are damned either way.
not on T property, I don't think
sounds like DCR property, either the median of Storrow Drive or the adjoining part of the Esplanade.
Who said evict?
They shouldn't even be able to climb up in there at all at any time. Other cities fence off climbable areas beneath their bridges for safety and security reasons, and Boston should too.
Shuttle buses from Lechmere
When I arrived at Lechmere...I already knew something was amiss, so I was aware that there would be shuttle buses there. What I wasn't prepared for was the lack of organization and the amount of people trying to load on the shuttle buses. I always travel to Lechmere, rather than Davis Square (Red line) I prefer traveling above tunnel rather than under, so I was going to catch the 87 or 88. But when the people re-directed trying to get to Davis and Porter (red line stops) were being told they had to pay for the bus, I was bothered for those who HAD to take these buses. There shouldn't of been a charge for all the commuters because of this inconvenience. I personally have a pass, but others paid for a train ride and had to get off! I think this should of been discussed with all of the Bus Drivers on shift and somebody should of made that decision for all the inconvenienced abutters.
Thank you
Planning for emergencies?
Policies? Contingencies? Forward thinking? In the same sentence as MBTA? You must be joking.
I have been told that busses are late every day because "it rained" or "it's cold" or "something must have happened up the line somewhere" - yeah, sunrise.