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Dead train at Oak Grove
By adamg on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 4:27pm
Orange Line riders: Is it my imagination, or has the Orange Line been particularly Green Linish the past couple of days?
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The green line gets all the press.
The stale squeezed orange line? Nobody cares. At rush hour, morning and evening, trains are late, too crowded to get onto, and half the cars lack the power for ventilation and lighting.
I suspect the Green Line gets most of the press
because, if you believe the T alerts, they have more problems that directly affect train movement than the Orange Line does.
I get both Green Line and Orange Line alerts on my cell. In any given week, the ratio of Green Line to Orange Line alerts is anywhere between 4:1 to 8:1 in the Green Line's favor.
It's not your imagination
> Orange Line riders: Is it my imagination, or has the Orange
> Line been particularly Green Linish the past couple of days?
The Orange Line has indeed been sucking even more than usual.
Last night something very strange happened, a little old guy wearing MBTA clothing, walked to the south edge of the Haymarket inbound platform (no train had come in either direction for ages) and peered down the track (as if looking for a train that had already departed the station). Then, he wlaked back to wherever he had come from. No announcements at Haymarket about what was going on, of course.
The MBTA "scorecard" for
The MBTA "scorecard" for September with August 09 data
http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Scor...
shows that the average Orange Line car goes 30,000 miles between breakdowns while the average Green Line car only goes 4,400 miles between breakdowns. Looks like Green Line wins the unrelibility prize hands down.