The Daily Report

Sorry for the lack of updates, but here's today's interesting travels. The morning's Orange Line was fine, on time, and relatively uncrowded, unlike the late train yesterday that meant waiting in the cold, again. Seriously, if that is a new scheduling idea it really needs work. In the afternoon I managed to narrowly miss a North Station train at Copley. There were several people running for it and with the station setup this would have been obviously visible to the operator, and so in accordance with MBTA logic no action was taken to hold the doors open to accommodate paying customers. That brings me to a tangent, as I find it extremely annoying when operators, typically on the Orange Line, refer to riders as 'customers' rather than as 'passengers'. To me, it is a crude use of a far too commercial term, especially given the cost of subway fares. Anyway, back to Copley. Eventually a Lechmere train arrived, and I took it as the main tunnel was devoid of trains. Between Arlington and Boylston I observed what was likely the rerailer LRV, 3417, with all of its lights illuminated, not hugely unusual, aside from the presence of 'No Passengers' end rollsigns, so perhaps it was a different work Boeing, or 3417 has some new signs. The rest of the trip went smoothly as did the OL, and the one last item is that one of the Bredas parked on the Brattle Loop was left with a door open, not a cab end door either, which seemed a little odd for a parked train.

And so it goes, another day riding forever 'neath the streets of boston.