Raymo Smookels, crazy Finnish inventor! ([info]_jejune) wrote in [info]mbta,
2005-08-20 18:53:00
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What's up with the orange line?

Excuse me if this comes off as kind of bitchy. Hormones and whatnot.

Can someone please explain to me why they needed to run the orange line in both directions on one track today? Was this scheduled maintenance or something, or some sort of emergency?

I mean, I understand the weekend counts as a low-traffic time. What bothers me is they couldn't even tell me upfront at Haymarket that the train was running oddly. They just told me to go to Park St. and pick up the train there. Also, they couldn't just put up a sign (even just a quickly scrawled one taped to the collector's booth) at the entrance to the station telling me that I couldn't take the orange line from there.

Okay. I understand that the MBTA is under a lot of financial pressure, but could they maybe pay their employees enough to care?

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[info]xiaomi

August 20 2005, 23:37:39 UTC 6 years ago

I find it highly helpful to bookmark the Transit Updates webpage. I check it daily before going anywhere because I'm in a wheelchair and need the elevators. I haven't been ambushed by an outage recently because of such. However, I do wish they were better about updating at the stations, yeah.

[info]_jejune

August 21 2005, 00:14:59 UTC 6 years ago

Do you know how often this is actually updated? Because I'm not seeing anything at all about the orange line being (essentially) out of commission. ...Which either means they've finished and updated the website really quickly, or they never updated at all about it. Or I just looked too quickly. :)

[info]xiaomi

August 21 2005, 00:36:18 UTC 6 years ago

lol, you looked too quickly. click on the 'orange line' link and read on down, it'll talk about signal upgrades above Haymarket.

[info]xiaomi

August 21 2005, 00:43:37 UTC 6 years ago

In fact, the first line on that orange line note is to see the note below regarding evening/weekend diversion ;p.

[info]strangeanimal

August 20 2005, 23:58:37 UTC 6 years ago

Half the time the station people know *nothing* about outages and delays. Hell, hooking them up to MBTA.com would be an improvement!

[info]impensada

August 21 2005, 04:52:11 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, i was sent to Park Street as well only to find that the orange line was closed there as well. i definitely could have reached my destination at least an hour earlier, even with the closings, if i had just been told up front what was going on. no answers, but i share your hormonal frustration :)

[info]aki

August 22 2005, 20:49:15 UTC 6 years ago

*beat*

Funny, I've always thought you *couldn't* pay MBTA employees enough to care.

Anonymous

August 23 2005, 20:16:28 UTC 6 years ago

Re: *beat*

Actually Sunday afternoon a T employee took it upon herself to sit outside of the inbound side of Downtown Crossing to and let people know they needed to use the other entrance. Colour me surprised!
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