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Blind banjo player at the Harvard T station
By adamg on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 10:41am
Will we one day wistfully look back at photos like this and recall when live musicians played on the T instead of canned Billy Joel and Ernie Boch, Jr.?
Over at North Station, Third Decade can't avoid the voices in his head even when he plugs in his iPod:
... [R]esistance was futile! The music played too loudly and the speakers in the station are set evenly apart, meaning there's no where to run. In essence, I'm paying to be part of a captive audience for a service I'd rather not listen to. What's unfortunate is that when the station returns to its playlist the music is fairly bland. It's as though the T is attempting to pacify its ridership and keep us from noticing service delays and the general condition of the system. ...
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All complaints with T-Radio can be submitted here
http://www.mbta.com/riding_the_t/feedback/
Also...
I forgot to add that you do not need to fill in things like e-mail address or city to submit your complaint.
thanks for the link - I
thanks for the link - I submitted feedback, fully knowing it would be ignored, but it did make me feel better to have someplace to vent the frustration!
Was he any good?
There's a guy who plays amplified Island type
music in Central and Harvard, and he's dreadful.
Icepick in the ears bad--kind of a long moan-sigh
with a bad guitar and rhythm. I've been tempted
to give him money, on the condition that he stop
playing until my train gets there.
Hopefully this guy had some basic skills on the
banjo.
I walked into south station
I walked into south station the other day and they had DJ SAMMY playing...
Can we PLEASE stop this crap now? Thanks MBTA, you raise the fairs and then stick intrusive ads into my skull... piss off already
T-Radio
I know not everyone has this option, but I've adjusted my commute so that I get on the Orange line earlier, instead of taking the Green line and switching at North Station, so that I don't have to be subjected to this noise.
Black Out Zones?
Does that mean everyone will trying to get on the one or two cars where the train stops in the "Black Out Zone"?
In search of a tech solution.....
Can we recruit some techie to develop a device that would disable the speakers without actually destroying them? There are those neat devices that can disrupt cell phone reception in a radius of several feet, rendering them useless. With all the techies in this area, can some one please invent a device to disable T Radio. I'd be happy to place said devices around the T so none of us have to listen to this crap.
In some countries, including Israel,
there's a system in place that causes cell phones to jam up and become ( temporarily) unusable when people go into public places such as restaurants, theatres, etc. What would be wrong with having something like that here in the United States?