The Daily Report

Soooooo. As usual today started with the Orange Line. And as usual it was fine. Done with that. In the afternoon, I went to Copley a little later than usual to go home. Fortunately, there was a North Station train led by 3893 that kindly waited on the platform with the front door open for a number of passengers scrambling to get to the train. If only that happened more often. Unfortunately, through a combination of passenger behavior (a topic I will go into detail about at a later date), and the design of the Type 8, it was impossible to leave the front section of the car, despite open space in the rear, as people would and could not easily move out of the way. Typical. Anyway, the same equipment as yesterday was stored in Boylston, so nothing new there. However, the interesting bit of the day was Government Center. As my train sat in the station, a train led by 3894 moved in on the Brattle Loop, but unfortunately it seemed as though it was not put into service, as is horribly typical of the useless MBTA. Grrrrr. Also in the oddity column was the presence of a Boston College bound train, at NORTH STATION. Sometimes that happens in the early morning, but at four in the afternoon? Weird. The OL was also fine in the afternoon, as were most of the lines, given that the transit gods were completely occupied with a spontaneous fight with the railroad gods, requiring the intervention of the Transit Police. Actually, the situation has not been clearly defined, but there was at least one platform at NoSta's commuter rail terminal that was blocked off by the transit police. Interestingly that platform served the Downeaster, which may have been cleared of passengers by the (T) Police. They also managed to delay ALL of the Northside lines this evening, much to the delight of the weary and annoyed commuters. Whether this was a possible emergency or maybe the Transit Police just being kinda annoying, I do not know. Though, the MBCR has just gotten another extension, and with that they have nothing to worry about until the 2012 bidding, so they basically have free reign to inconvenience the customers, as they call them, with little fear of reprisals. Maybe they just used the transit police to do it for them, I dunno, but the police can already be a bit inconvenient, especially when they decide it's time for a 'random' bag search that has almost no chance of providing any real help whatsoever. Oh well, whatever pleases the politicians whose corrupt ways leave the (T) in financial limbo. To conclude, I have one prediction for the MBTA in this new decade: DOOM. See ya!

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