MBTA Hate
Last night Matt and I went to the Woodland T station, only to find out that for this weekend buses were replacing the trolleys from Riverside to Resevoir due to construction.
We waited for over 20 minutes for the bus to come, and the bus ride from Woodland to Resevoir was a half hour. (We normally would have been to our destination - the Boylston stop - within a half hour!) It then took another fifteen minutes to get to Boylston. The trolley was rickety and shaky as usual, and I don’t deal with that so well. In fact, as soon as we arrived at the Boylston stop, I ran out of the station and vomited in Boston Common because the ride made me so sick!!!! If anyone who saw me completely sick reading this, that was indeed me you saw. I was not drunk, just a product of a shaky, antiquated MBTA trolley!
Getting home was even worse. It took over an hour for us to get back and the bus was completely PACKED. I could hardly move.
I wonder what kind of construction they’re doing. I’d like them to just get rid of all the green line trolleys and just start from scratch. I don’t think there’s anything that the MBTA can do to make the ride more pleasurable short of updating their entire system.
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Now you citizens of Boston,
Don’t you think it’s a scandal
That the people have to pay and pay
Vote for Walter A. O’Brien
Fight the fare increase!
And fight the fare increase
Vote for George O’Brien!
Get poor Charlie off the MTA.
I couldn’t resist! :)
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I’m afraid of busses - I wonder how I’d fare on a trolley. Sorry to hear they made you so sick!
I enjoyed eavesdropping on the 19 year old girl (whose mother was on the same bus, by the way) try to pick up some 27-30 year old guy watching a video on his laptop. The fellow uncomfortably removed himself from the situation by getting off the bus. I wonder if it was even his stop…
Haha, that was pretty funny.
[...] I haven’t rode on the blue or orange lines extensively, but I am fairly familiar with the red line. The red line is alright. The green line is dreadful. I can’t believe it even exists. It’s almost useless. I could walk along the B-line route faster than taking the trolley. The D-line is better than the B, but as I’ve complained previously, the entire green line system is antediluvian! It’s barely time effecient and coming from Newton it won’t even be more economical. [...]
The fair hikes haven’t done poo and the system only seems to be getting worse. I’ve therefore started a petition for those in-charge to step down else we boycott the MBTA. If you wouldn’t mind signing my petition, go here:
https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/fix-the-mbta