tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853272238333328280.post7801379168823601390..comments2023-05-13T03:23:24.505-07:00Comments on Charlie On the Commuter Rail: System in CrisisQuasithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05147005081906046351noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853272238333328280.post-25632642604149297322008-06-16T21:29:00.000-07:002008-06-16T21:29:00.000-07:00Try riding the green line especially the D part. ...Try riding the green line especially the D part. Quiet often in the morning you can't even board the T and it goes right past my stop. Many times I have had to ride in the stairwell with even the T personnel standing behind me on the outside making sure the doors close. The idea of standing in the crumple zone makes me ponder whether I want to do that anymore but especially during Red Sox season you don't have much of a choice.<BR/><BR/>On another note, some of us have difficulty standing but don't want to make a scene or have to ask someone to give up a seat that is clearly labeled for handicapped/ elderly. Since to most people I don't appear to have a problem standing, I have to make the assumption that the person sitting has a non-apparent reason for sitting. Often it seems I can get a seat when I onl have one stop to go. Then there are the people who are forced to stand in the vestibules and then block the railings I need to use to get safely down the steps. I am waiting for the embarassing day that I fall. I haven't complained to the MBTA and haven't felt right complaining recently due to the horrific accident but had that accident happened near the middle of the T's run and at rush hour I am sure more people would have been injured. As it is I think people were very lucky that what could have been a major tragedy resulted in 1 death and not so many more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853272238333328280.post-32789727677328890272008-04-24T18:36:00.000-07:002008-04-24T18:36:00.000-07:00The Franklin #715 almost never gets double-deckers...The Franklin #715 almost never gets double-deckers - it happens once in a blue moon. Normally we get six single-level coaches, but lately management seems to have reduced that number to five.<BR/><BR/>I've heard that the T is claiming that the fleet is short on cars because of that accident a few months ago. That may be. But given that several trains go through Ruggles shortly before the Franklin #715, and all of those trains seem to have far less crowding than the Franklin line...well, I have to believe that the T isn't allocating their resources intelligently.<BR/><BR/>Maybe if T management and the Legislature had to ride the T every day to and from work...you know, that's a damned good idea! There should be some sort of citizen initiative to require them to take the T! Taxpayers certainly shouldn't have to foot the bill to have them chauffeured around.<BR/><BR/>If they ARE chauffeured around, that is. But I'm reasonably sure that virtually none of them ride the T.Quasithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05147005081906046351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4853272238333328280.post-73378260512608806052008-04-24T08:48:00.000-07:002008-04-24T08:48:00.000-07:00My train has been packed for weeks as well. We us...My train has been packed for weeks as well. We used to have a five car train with four double deckers and now all we are getting are single cars. <BR/><BR/>Plenty of people have whined to the conductors on my line. Part of me would love to speak up and say to the whiner, 'Well, the conductor could have stopped your from boarding the train to prevent overcrowding.' <BR/><BR/>Are all the double deckers in for servicing? Or are they all being run on the Greenbush line?RedheadwithAttitudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08140096693472247508noreply@blogger.com