Okeydokey, Tufts station got all smokey

By adamg on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 12:57pm

Smoke-filled Tufts Medical Station on the Orange Line

Where are those new trains again? People fled an Orange Line train at Tufts Medical Center around 10:30 a.m. after the station filled with smoke, as Mark Smith shows us. WBZ Newsradio reports the smoke came from a malfunctioning motor on the tired old train.

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Okay, I admit it - the two

By Rob on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 3:45pm.

Okay, I admit it - the two prototypes of Orange Line cars (one made of straw, the other made sticks) have some drawbacks. ...and Yes, the next prototype will probably solve the combustibility problem.

I'm just sayin' - there's gonna be some performance trade-offs when you build it out of brick. That's all.

I'm abroad

By cybah on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 4:06pm.

I'm abroad in Sweden for a work trip for 12 days.

My coworkers (Swede) and I were having a chat about transit, and the differences between Gothenburg Sweden and Boston.

I simply showed them this article (and a few others). Their reply "is it that bad". Me: "this is pretty much daily and Somerville coworkers wonder why I take buses to work.."

I should also add that many of the trams (light rail essentially) still use cars from the 1950s. They are in pristine shape. None of them can understand how we can let our system get so bad. One asked "don't you have money to fix them". I hysterically laughed and explained the politics behind the T. I think one coworkers had a mini-stroke after...

on a side note, I found out that Gothenburg bought Breda trains a year after Boston did. They scraped most of them a few years ago and have brand new 102 foot ones now (similar to Toronto's). Nice to know Breda was garbage all around, and just wasn't a Boston thing.

Swedish transit

By Michael on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 4:31pm.

My wife was in Sweden earlier this year, and reported that one day the bus, which runs regularly even on weekends way way way way out onto the suburban peninsula where she was staying with friends, was about three minutes late, which resulted in some clucking from the people waiting and eventually a profuse apology in both Swedish and English from the bus driver.

Same

By cybah on Sat, 09/21/2019 - 4:14pm.

I rode SJ Railways high speed rail from Gothenburg to Stockholm today.. and we were 3 minutes late and they repeatedly apologized for it. It was like they really were sorry they were 3 minutes late.

vs Amtrak.. you'd get "you're lucky you arrived at all" and you'd be 45 mins late.

Sweden's No-Go Districts tell a very different story.

By anon on Mon, 09/23/2019 - 1:36pm.

Imagine Boston's original Columbia Point Housing Project was still up, conditions were 5x worse, and the BPD no longer patrolled the area. That's what you have across Stockholm and Gothenburg, dozens of terrible No-Gos Boston's poorest communities are light years ahead of Stock/G's poorest communities. If you ever tried to take transit to one of these No-Go's, you would beg for the CURRENT Red and Orange Line conditions.