UPDATE at 9:20 a.m.: Looks like the power is back on and some trains are moving again, but slowly, since the signals aren't working.
9:30 a.m. Joe Pesaturo: "Power is being restored, but all lines are experiencing delays. An investigation into the cause of the outage is underway." T now advising people to not take the T.
9:50: Boston Police report the Red Line still dead due to signal problems.
1 p.m.: NECN reports the T is blaming "a private company doing routine maintenance" on the system. More to come at a 1:30 news briefing.
People stuck on trains all over the place:
Red Line.
Orange Line.
Green Line.
Blue Line:
*MAJOR* mbta fail. no power at Maverick T station. no buses. making people walk to airport to get buses. in a cab now.
No lights at Back Bay station; commuter-rail tracks almost pitch black.
Nykwil proposes the MBTA buy one million hamsters and wheels as a power supply.
Michael Femia: Maybe the T shouldn't have diverted all of its power to David Ortiz.
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Futile bargaining
By neilv
Thu, 05/21/2009 - 3:56pm
Delays and such are *de rigeur* for the MBTA. I'd rather have an occasional failure like this, if I could otherwise have everything run well normally.
Unfortunately, I don't see a way out of having both occasional big failures and continuous smaller ones. We're saddled with quirky legacy infrastructure, and my random-person-on-the-street impression is that we don't have the huge gobs money (or even always engineering feasibility) to really fix it.
Myself, I've been making choices to make things in my life walkable.
Disclosure: I volunteer on pedestrian issues.
MBTA LOLcat
By adamg
Thu, 05/21/2009 - 4:41pm
Here.
Ohboy
By eeka
Thu, 05/21/2009 - 4:45pm
I actually just LOLed (LedOL?) at a lolcat. Someone shoot me.
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