Bostontoallpoints
Service Attendant
Bad operation of the T is losing riders. The publicity is just a symptom.
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Actually, on some level I agree with this.
Boston is a transit friendly city, with people who, on some level, know that the T is a good thing and car dependency is a bad. No matter how bad the T gets, people won't stop riding it purely because of bad press.
If the T starts behaving again, I'm sure ridership will grow.
Not the first time the Washington St Tunnel has flooded. I remember during my commute to school in the 1960s of arriving at Summer/Winter (Downtown Crossing today) and being told we had to walk to Boylston/Essex (Chinatown today) to board our train to Forest Hills, due to flooding in the tunnel.
The Green Line Extension will not shut down later this month, as originally planned, a spokesperson for Gov. Maura Healey announced Wednesday.
Service along the extension between Union Square and Lechmere stations was scheduled to be suspended from July 17 to Aug. 28 to make way for construction on the Squire Bridge in the area.
In a statement, though, spokesperson Karissa Hand said officials had opted to postpone construction until September so that construction does not take place at the same time as the now ongoing Sumner Tunnel closure.
The delay, Hand said, is also to “allow appropriate time to explore mitigation options and communicate with the public.”
Hand said MassDOT crews inspected the bridge over the weekend and determined it is safe to delay the repairs.
https://whdh.com/news/green-line-extension-will-not-close-later-this-month-construction-postponed/
Eng concedes changing the culture especially with the unions is a challenge
https://www.boston.com/news/the-bos...-bostons-subway-than-you-are/?p1=hp_secondary
https://www.boston.com/news/the-bos...-bostons-subway-than-you-are/?p1=hp_secondary
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A perfect example of the culture problems in Boston
https://www.boston.com/news/local-n...irefighters-standpipe-broken/?p1=hp_secondary
https://www.boston.com/news/local-n...irefighters-standpipe-broken/?p1=hp_secondary
A few of us may be old enough to remember the vending machines in airports that sold insurance good for one flight. Maybe they should install them in MBTA stations.
west point
Engineer
Wow! Talk about bad press. If I were the new head of MBTA the person who advised that policy should get the royal reaming. There have been too many fire incidents where fire protection has been lax. Especially am worried about the many RR museums have little to no protection. Since many are using old RR steam facilities the coal dust can almost explode during any fire.
Read some where one facility was adding sprinklers in parts. They are not cheap.
Read some where one facility was adding sprinklers in parts. They are not cheap.
Bostontoallpoints
Service Attendant
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/29/wake-up-mbta-employee-suspended-for-sleeping-on-the-job/
An MBTA employee accused of sleeping on the job has been suspended, an agency spokesperson said.
The suspension comes after a video came to light showing an employee sleeping in his car during work hours on what appeared to be multiple occasions. A T employee who asked to remain anonymous shared the video with the Herald.
On Friday, after viewing the video, MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo said the employee is off the job for the time being, but would not confirm the job title or name that was provided to the Herald. The employee in question is a bus inspector, according to the source who shot the video.
An MBTA employee accused of sleeping on the job has been suspended, an agency spokesperson said.
The suspension comes after a video came to light showing an employee sleeping in his car during work hours on what appeared to be multiple occasions. A T employee who asked to remain anonymous shared the video with the Herald.
On Friday, after viewing the video, MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo said the employee is off the job for the time being, but would not confirm the job title or name that was provided to the Herald. The employee in question is a bus inspector, according to the source who shot the video.
Maverickstation
Lead Service Attendant
Here are some recent pictures along the South Coast Line at Berkley (the junction of the 2 end points). As regular visitors to Westport, we are looking forward to the closer Commuter Rail Options (as opposed to Middleborough).
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Ok, danger (and other things) aside, that’s low key kinda cool.
Ridership on the T transit lines is still roughly half of 2019 levels
https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/red/ridership/?endDate=2023-08-23&startDate=2016-02-01
https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/red/ridership/?endDate=2023-08-23&startDate=2016-02-01
Interesting to note that of all the lines the Blue Line seems to be the one closest to historical levels. Perhaps being the one line not plagued with equipment issues might be a factor. Or it could be that much of its traffic such as trips to/from the airport is not affected by the work from home phenomenon.
Today I saw a Tweet (an X?) from the MBTA concerning the Red/Blue connector. I didn't realize that was an ongoing project.
https://www.mbta.com/projects/red-blue-connector
https://www.mbta.com/projects/red-blue-connector
The T will suspend service on the Red Line for 16 days in October from JFK/UMass to Mattapan.
https://www.mbta.com/news/2023-08-2...um=news&utm_source=homepage&utm_term=red-line
https://www.mbta.com/news/2023-08-2...um=news&utm_source=homepage&utm_term=red-line
The T staggers into September
That Haymarket garage is taking longer to tear down than it took to build the Tremont St subway 
It seems hopeless
I always felt that it was a situation of “gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.”
Red Line is my line - it’s bad. The portion between Charles MGH and Davis use to be some of the fastest and most reliable stuff on the T, but boy it did not age well.
Only in Boston
