by sb150
Anyone trying to find the Red Line from the southbound Orange Line at DTX is pretty well screwed
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sb150 wrote:Anyone trying to find the Red Line from the southbound Orange Line at DTX is pretty well screwedAnd if one is handicapped, it's even worse. One could
diburning wrote:Is it actually an entrance with fare gates? Or is it one of those exits guarded by a one-way revolving cage-door? If it's the latter, then the lack of signage would make a bit of sense.It does have Charile gates and not iron maidens. I would use it when I was going to the Newbury Comics that was over there, now Staples. As a sad note, a woman was killed there, in February 2009, when her scarf was caught in the escalator. Also at exit is closed on weekends.
The EGE wrote:That's actually an entrance to State station - it leads to the far north end of the northbound platform. It was originally built as an Adams Square entrance for the station (see this article). After the construction of Government Center and the obliteration of Adams Square, it's not well used. I really don't understand why there is no signage there, nor why a permanent railing took so long to be added.The temporary railings that were up for a few years were just that - temporary. It used to have a permanent railing.
deathtopumpkins wrote: As for why it doesn't have any signage - I'd suspect it has to do with the relationship between the T and the owner of that building. The building owner owns the land the entrance is on, and probably required there not be any signage as a condition of allowing the entrance to remain open (largely for the benefit of people who work there).
Patrick Boylan wrote:I know you're only guessing, but even so how do you think not having a sign benefits the people who work there?
diburning wrote:It probably functions as a semi-private entrance for their employees.Are you trying to answer my question to deathtopumpkins? Even if it functions as a semi-private entrance for their employees, how does not having any signs benefit the people who work there? Do you think that if there were a sign it would attract such large crowds that their employees couldn't use it? If the employer really wanted it to be their semi-private entrance, and if it's on the employer's property, why wouldn't they just extend their glass wall around it so the only way to get to it would be from inside the building? As it is now their employees must brave the elements for the few steps from the stairway to the building's door.
Yellowspoon wrote:nstalled.The steps that are not signed to go up are the ones signed upstairs to go down. The intention cause the stairs are so narrow is for up and down stairs. The ones that are signed come up into the Green Line after the stairs that go down creating a natural pedestrian flow. I am sure at one time they had signs saying down or do not enter. It is really well thought out. If you put a sign up it will disrupt the flow.
Part B: These are secret stairs. Anyone walking to the south (to the right in this photograph) on the center platform will not see these stairs unless they are explicitly looking for them. There are no signs facing the oncoming pedestrians that these are the only stairs to westbound green line. I've stood here about an hour before a RedSox game and about 40% of the patrons in baseball attire walk right past this sign and wind up at track 4.