Red Line Delays

[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/mbtas_red_line.html

Comments

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

For people who are random-link averse: Someone was struck by a red line train at Kendal Station. "The T is using shuttle buses to move passengers between the Broadway station in South Boston and the Harvard Square station in Cambridge as of 11:30 a.m., according to the T's website (http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/transit_updates/?ttype=subway&route=Red+Line#details)."

(edited to add a link to the quote above to the relevant webpage for updates about how they're handling the issue)

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

I was on the red line when this happened. The first announcement was that we were standing by because of a disabled train in South Station. After backing back into Harvard, they said we were standing by because of a medical emergency in Kendall. No further note was made of the original "problem."

My question is: did they lie, or did the Kendall emergency simply preempt the South Station problem?

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing they lied initially. That's their instinctive response. By later in the day, to their credit, the announcement was that there was "a medical emergency at Kendall... person struck by a train".

[gruene.livejournal.com]

When they had the green line crash last year a remember the announcements saying "due to a medical emergency", which while technically true omitted certain key information.