Park Street
Blake Wexler reports the T set the clocks at Park Street ahead two hours this morning, but adds:
Even with that standard trains are STILL running late.
Situation over, but area is a mess, Boston_Fireman tweets.
Major delays on the Red, Green and Orange lines as rush hour refuses to give up its grip on MBTA commuters this evening - almost as if the trains were determined to give us the sort of delays we might expect if we'd actually gotten a blizzard.
"Watching the slow death of a red line train at Park St.," Danielle Ouellette tweets.
Sarah Hopp adds: "The digital signs at Central MBTA station are announcing delays in all caps. DELAYS MAKE ME ANGRY TOO MR. SIGN."
Katie punches in from the Green Line: "Our operator thanked us for our patience (35 mins from Hynes to Park)....not like we had a choice."
Buck Buckaroo wearily reports from the Florida Sunshine Line: "There was a disabled train on the orange line. It took me fifty minutes to get from Downtown Crossing to Oak Grove."
Sylvie Tse reports that when she got off the Green Line at Park Street this afternoon, the fire alarms were blaring and flashing like nobody's business:
... And the best part about all of it was that as the fire alarms went off there were no MBTA officials anywhere to direct riders of where to go or what to do. So I just did what I always do: go down to the Red Line platform and pretended like there was no potential fire and there is no reason the fire alarms are going off. Because, you know, the Red Line would never catch fire. Ha.
Signal problems at Park Street? Rush-hour commuters got stuck on the Longfellow tonight and now people trying to get anywhere fast on the Red Line might be better off just walking, apparently. Man, even the Mattapan "High-Speed" Line had problems today thanks to a disabled trolley.
Syvlie Tse reports some Red Line announcement derangement at Park Street today.
Disabled trolley, the T reports.
Jenny Spadafora tweets there's a trolley deader than a doorknob at Park Street.
Around 7:30 or so, there was a dead train at Hynes/ICA, another at, of course, Government Center, the MBTA reports.
At 8:28, Local 718 added:
COMPANIES TO THE MBTA PARK ST. STATION REPORTED GREEN LINE TRAIN W/ OVERHEATED BRAKES
As Pat Goss puts it:
Looks like the green line switch invaded the red line and won!
Meanwhile, MBTA Transit Police Service Area 2 assures us:
No fire at Kendall MBTA. Red Line Dispatcher reports train was creating sparks that caused small smoke condition. Should be clear shortly.
Local 718 tweets: Accident on the Red Line this morning. Rescue crews had to deploy air bags to move the train enough to get the victim out.
The Globe reports her injuries were considered non-serious.
Of course, what better time for a Red Line train to break down at Park Street? At least it's on the outbound side.
Dead trolley at Park Street is causing delays between Government Center and Kenmore, the T reports and Darryl Fuller tweets.
William Fleurant tweeted at 8:09 this morning:
greenline inbound @ boylston to park 35m wait so far, we're dry
At 9:17, John Zilch, Jr. wondered:
Copley to Govt Center => 35 min. MBTA, why don't your trains work in the rain? They're underground.
Stephan tweets:
I woke up this morning wondering how I could waste 20 minutes of my life today. Thanks for helping me out, Green Line!
At first glance, this just seems like a boring photo of the entrance to the Park Street T stop. But look more closely, at the gate on the left side. Michael Femia took the photo on June 10.
What with the Green Line screwed up and all. Which might explain the glum look on the face of the bicyclist at Park Street on the Red Line, as captured by Charlotte.
Lordwow tweets he was just on a trolley that took eight minutes to get from Boylston to Park Street.
Zolok considers the Green Line in a post-5/9 world:
If the Green Line (inbound) from Copley to Park Street ran any slower during afternoon rush hour, alert science minded riders could actually visually discern Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in action.
Have you see the new Boston-themed wall-to-wall campaign for Puma at Park Street? It spells out words like "Habah" and "dance floah."
Kate Hutchinson is weihded out:
Dear Puma: boston accent advertising has been done to death. Try something new, like selling your product
Aaron Weber also gets his Boston up, says he finds the ads condescending at best:
... It marks the advertiser as an outsider desperate to fit in, as a tourist, as an out-of-towner. You might as well walk the Freedom Trail in khaki shorts, sandals with socks, a tricorner hat and a t-shirt with a lobster on it. That's definitely not the image Puma wants, but it's what they're getting. ...
Penny Cherubino posts a copy of a flier T workers were handing out today to let Park Street commuters know the westbound headhouse (i.e., entrance) will be shut for "approximately five weeks" to allow reconstruction of the stairs.
Zach Hofer-Shall tweets:
45 minutes from Prudential to Park St. on the Green Line. MBTA - you are the worst. Ever.
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