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Dark in Hynes
By adamg on Wed, 12/10/2014 - 4:47pm
A shame there's no Twitter-controlled Christmas trees at Hynes station, because that might lighten the place up a bit now that the regular lights have failed, as Derrick shows us.
Above ground, meanwhile, traffic lights have gone on strike in the area of South Station.
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Great Shot
Love the black and white look. Very "noir".
Of course the T, and the BTD
Of course the T, and the BTD's traffic lights, don't have the obvious, easy, critical safety feature of battery backup lights.
Actually...
...credit where credit is due, emergency lights were on at Hynes. It was definitely weird and spooky, but not pitch black or dangerous. What's more, I was happy to see that the "turnstyles" (or whatever they'd be called these days) apparently default to the open position in case of a power loss, so people could get in and out with no problem.
Faregates
The word you're looking for is "faregates".
Thanks, DTP.
Though considering the quality of Green Line service, particularly the B branch, "Unfair-gate" might be more apt :-)
Ha! Thank you for the
Ha! Thank you for the morning chuckle!
If you would like to pay for
If you would like to pay for a backup generator at every traffic signal in the city of Boston, be my guest.
The city has higher priority things to spend limited tax money on though. We can be like everywhere else and in the somewhat rare event of an outrage live without signals. That's how we got by down south after hurricanes.
Everywhere else has battery
Everywhere else has battery backup at every traffic light.
Around here, the traffic lights go dark, and people who don't know there's a light whiz through in all 4 directions without slowing down.
all I want for Christmas!
Is for the MBTA to be on time, clean and safe.
I work for the T. The reason
I work for the T. The reason Hynes station went dark was because an emergency generator powering the station ran out of fuel. We called several times when the tank got to 1/2 full to have it filled. No one from Arlington Ave. showed up. They didn't come until after it ran out and the Green Line dispatcher decided to finally make it a priority. I work with complete morons and I am getting sick of it. This is what patronage will get you.