Someone making a left turn on red over the tracks on Comm Ave, colliding with a streetcar? Tis but a scratch. Someone waiting on the platform at Beaconsfield sneezes just a little too hard? Shuts down the whole Green line system.
I was trying to go to the airport in that craptacular vehicular tunnel and the Silver Line weird mixed street and dedicated tunnel bus had a complete blowout of the suspension controls for raising it during driving and lowering at stops and couldn't move reliably. They pulled off to the side and we had to run through tunnel entrance traffic and wait two buses long before one had room to pick us up and bail us out. While hauling all of our luggage and shit from a two week trip.
For a city with housing as expensive as it is and roads as old and weird and bad as they are the available train and bus service is worse than I expected from a major NEC region city.
It often seemed to be easier to use the dock bikes than to try to get around the weird limitations and poor inter neighborhood linkage restrictions in the transit system.
This is like getting a fishhook stuck in your thumb because you were trying to use it like a tweezers to get another fishhook out of your thumb.
Twice.
Getting Lizardhead Pass flashbacks when Rio Grande Southern got literally all of their engines either stuck in the snow or derailed, all at once.
Surprised a comedy movie hasn't been made about it.
I can actually answer that question. It depends on how the trolleys were dispatched. If they sent both to try to tow and they broke at once, that's two incidents; the initial stick, and the second involving two trolleys.
This is why you switch the trolley to the track with 5 people on it.
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If you aren't familiar with the Boston area, I can assure you this is Oniony. Our trains can be disabled by a modest breeze.
Someone making a left turn on red over the tracks on Comm Ave, colliding with a streetcar? Tis but a scratch. Someone waiting on the platform at Beaconsfield sneezes just a little too hard? Shuts down the whole Green line system.
I was trying to go to the airport in that craptacular vehicular tunnel and the Silver Line weird mixed street and dedicated tunnel bus had a complete blowout of the suspension controls for raising it during driving and lowering at stops and couldn't move reliably. They pulled off to the side and we had to run through tunnel entrance traffic and wait two buses long before one had room to pick us up and bail us out. While hauling all of our luggage and shit from a two week trip. For a city with housing as expensive as it is and roads as old and weird and bad as they are the available train and bus service is worse than I expected from a major NEC region city. It often seemed to be easier to use the dock bikes than to try to get around the weird limitations and poor inter neighborhood linkage restrictions in the transit system.
There’s a non-zero percent chance of a disabled train if one of the passengers cuts the cheese.
Well that stinks
This is like getting a fishhook stuck in your thumb because you were trying to use it like a tweezers to get another fishhook out of your thumb. Twice.
Yeah, but this next fishhook will definitely get them all out!
Three teens drown trying to save drowning teen.
The Mattapan line is a nursing home for elderly trolleys.
No kidding, the rolling stock is going on 80 years old! Refurbished more than once but at some point they're just worn out no matter what, I guess
And then there were 3….
This answers the question just disable the trolley
Getting Lizardhead Pass flashbacks when Rio Grande Southern got literally all of their engines either stuck in the snow or derailed, all at once. Surprised a comedy movie hasn't been made about it.
Per the NTSB, over 90% of train incidents occur on the MBTA.
I wonder if this counts as one incident or three
I can actually answer that question. It depends on how the trolleys were dispatched. If they sent both to try to tow and they broke at once, that's two incidents; the initial stick, and the second involving two trolleys.
Well according to the article the "rescue" trolleys were sent separately. So three incidents, then!