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New Red Line car defaced before the T could even finish painting it

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Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko spotted one of the new Red Line cars all tagged up today in the Cabot Yard in South Boston - before the T could even finish applying red paint to the bottom third of the car's side.

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Hang these punks by their Buster Browns!

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A crew of taggers managed to enter a secure facility and vandalize new trains. Someone has some explaining to do. It's really sad that the Transit Police had no knowledge of the vandalism until Jed took photos.

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How many taggers in a "crew"? Seems like this could have been done by as little as one to three people - one actual tagger and maybe a lookout or two.

...especially if it was at night when that area is full of parked trains so there would be a lot of cover.

Secure facility? A chain link fence. Maybe some barbed wire and a gate? No - not "secure"

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I would have assumed when I hit this age I would disapprove of stuff like this, but I miss when bombing was more prevalent and respect the tenacity. *NP Co Flow
LUNE TNS"

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How appropriate. I'm glad this happened. MBTA sucks.

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You do realize that its your tax money that pays for these cars and their upkeep?

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Make me wish there was a downvote button on this site. Responding to the anon, that is.

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But wouldn't you think the cars would be painted at the assembly plant before being delivered to the T?

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I think they're supposed to be painted at the factory. We've seen deliveries of blue & orange line cars that come painted.

Maybe this is only a test car?

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The first six pilot cars (the only Red Line cars delivered so far) came direct from China, not Springfield. 4 out of those 6 didn't have the red adhesive applied yet. The production ones from Springfield will come with Red applied (the first six don't have any numbers or T logos applied yet either)

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In the other post, someone said these cars still need another trip to the Springfield plant for final outfitting.

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They should start pickup passengers now

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i.e. The old Broadway Station street car portal. (There is a full tunnel above the station platforms below that runs from the Broadway Bridge to A Street).

Bad show lads. I guess all the 9/11 protect our subways, airports, and vital infrastructure money ran out. Do better.

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I think it'd be super cool if the MBTA just embraced spray painting and said- fine, we'll park it in this place every month and allow people to come make art (with windows covered, etc.), and please use the car's color as a dominant color in your design.

It's not realistic, but at least that would make them interesting and like moving art pieces. When graffiti is done well, it can be beautiful.

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It can also be beautiful without graffiti.

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Should the T also embrace kicking faregates and taking a dump in elevators once a month?

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Embrace it?!
No
I remember enough of the NYCTA in the late 70s through much of the 80s.

If the T was to hold a contest to commission work from graffiti artists, that might work. This, however, is just destruction of public property.

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I agree that the random tagging here is just destruction of property. When I said "embrace it", I was imagining embracing actual graffiti art via something like your contest idea :)

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Knowing the commonwealth, they would only let a few artists fight for the privilege and it would consist of 1-3 tokens and most from out of town.

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