by charlesriverbranch
I accompanied my girlfriend to North Station yesterday afternoon to see her off on the 5:20 Downeaster. They called her train at 5:10, so I went downstairs to wait for a Green Line D train. The electronic sign said there was a Reservoir train in a few minutes, and a Riverside train in "20+ minutes".
The Reservoir train arrived as a Cleveland Circle train, and the Riverside train disappeared from the sign, replaced by a Heath Street train. The Heath Street train came and went, after which the Riverside train reappeared "in 17 minutes", but that 17 went back to 20+a couple minutes later.
No Riverside train actually appeared until 5:51 -- that's 41 minutes after I arrived. And when it arrived, it was ONE car, not technically a train at all, and there were enough people waiting for it to fill it to rush hour levels of crowding. When it got to Kenmore, a lot of people from the just ended Sox game squeezed in. Not more than a handful of passengers were wearing masks, Covid be damned.
This level of service simply stinks. ONE car? In 41 minutes? And right after the end of a Red Sox game? This is pure ineptitude. Charlie Baker, you deserve to be trapped on the Green Line forever like your 1948 namesake.
The Reservoir train arrived as a Cleveland Circle train, and the Riverside train disappeared from the sign, replaced by a Heath Street train. The Heath Street train came and went, after which the Riverside train reappeared "in 17 minutes", but that 17 went back to 20+a couple minutes later.
No Riverside train actually appeared until 5:51 -- that's 41 minutes after I arrived. And when it arrived, it was ONE car, not technically a train at all, and there were enough people waiting for it to fill it to rush hour levels of crowding. When it got to Kenmore, a lot of people from the just ended Sox game squeezed in. Not more than a handful of passengers were wearing masks, Covid be damned.
This level of service simply stinks. ONE car? In 41 minutes? And right after the end of a Red Sox game? This is pure ineptitude. Charlie Baker, you deserve to be trapped on the Green Line forever like your 1948 namesake.