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Huntington Avenue trolley hit by something a bit more solid this afternoon, like, a car
By adamg on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 1:51pm
Photo from outside and above the MFA.
The MBTA reports a car hit the side of an inbound trolley at Huntingon and Forsythe around 1:40 p.m. The trolley was undamaged; the car sustained minor damage to the front bumper and its driver was given a ticket for a moving violation, the T says.
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Man, that intersection SUCKS.
Man, that intersection SUCKS. Something should really be done there, and hopefully it allows me to make left handed turns, although I bet thats how this guy got Trolley'd.
Isn't this like the third
Isn't this like the third time this year the E line has hit something at that specific intersection? I recently remember a pedestrian being clipped by the T one night at that location.
See the updated post
The T says the car hit the trolley, not the other way around.
Yup, I was there for that
Yup, I was there for that pedestrian hit, although that wasn't the intersections fault, more drunken buffoonery.
This intersection has always bothered me
Please note the lack of crosswalks on the east side (right side of photo) of the intersection. Pedestrians, including a constant stream of students from Northeastern and the high school on The Fenway are forced to either wait through three light cycles to cross around the intersection or high step over the T tracks. Living in West Village H for a year, with my window directly overlooking this intersection, allowed me to witness countless near-misses. Do you think BTD knows about this problem? According to Google Earth historical images, it's been like this since at least '95.
My route to H for class
My route to H for class freshman year from Stetson West (Forsythe and Heminway) was a walk down Heminway, cross three lanes of Huntington westbound, trying to cross the tracks while only stepping on the rails and then crossing the final two lanes of Huntington going east. Dangerous, definitely. Faster, no question. An intersection in need of reworking, obviously.