No doubt there's a reason the signals keep failing on the part of the line that kept getting shut down over several years to repair all the signals.
Switching problems at Wellington mean inbound delays on the Orange Line this morning. As Matt Kurkowski tweeted:
Clearly it is time to replace the switch if these "switching problems" ALWAYS happen at Wellington! Love a 1/4 MPH commute.
Your victim might whip out a cell phone and take your picture and then the police will post your photo where everybody can see it as they attempt to hunt you down.
OK, so we know it was pretty bad on the Orange and Green lines this morning. But how awesomely bad was it? You have to read Some Assembly Required's account of the mishegas at Wellington:
... The train sat for a minute, and people were starting to wonder why it didn't go on its way. Then the PA announced that this train WAS going back to Oak Grove after all. Everyone oozed grumpily back out of the train and onto the platform, including all those who had been on the train to begin with, and shortly after a second, empty train came in on the opposite platform, again from the "wrong" direction. The PA announced that THIS train was the one going into Boston, and everyone oozed onto that one. I continued to wait and observe, and both trains continued to sit.
After a minute or two the PA guy, who by this point was probably starting to really hate his day, informed us that BOTH trains would be going into Boston ...
An Orange Line rider wonders what was up around 9 a.m.:
Yellow taped off parts of the parking lot - tons of cops, a few posted around with binoculars looking at the parking lot. I overheard something about a red car. No one would tell me what was up, but it sure looked like something had the MBTA and police crews out in full force. ...
Dinane recounts your typical Orange Line commute involving a train going out of service with, of course, the alleged service train right behind it that eventually moseys into the station looking like the last train out of Paris in "Casablanca," then realizes:
... I'm very lucky to have a life where the most annoying and painful things are almost always public transportation in Boston.
It could be way worse.
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