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Mmm, Malden
Mar. 12th, 2003 03:12 pm(This is going to be very train-geeky; be forewarned.)
I somewhat regularly T to work from Wellington station, which is on the orange line adjacent to the Haverhill commuter rail. If I leave home at just the right time, an inbound commuter rail train passes the station as I'm waiting (and, frequently, as a train leaving service pulls into the Wellington yard). It's conceivable, then, that I could try to get myself to Malden in the morning (either by taking the 101 bus or the orange line), take the commuter rail to North Station, and then take EZRide to MIT. That's probably slightly gratuitous, but it probably also doesn't take longer than the subway.
So, thinking about Malden and that commuter rail line, I think I'm expecting there to be a small rectangular yellow sign with the letters "D.I.B." on the outbound, but not the inbound, end of the Malden Center commuter rail platform. This, in turn, would mean that the outbound train between Malden and Wyoming would be a little slow, though still faster than the orange line. I've only been that way once, and don't remember noticing if it was particularly fast or slow.
Really, trains need little monitors somewhere where properly geeky passengers can see the current state of the signal system and the location and speed of the train. :-)
I somewhat regularly T to work from Wellington station, which is on the orange line adjacent to the Haverhill commuter rail. If I leave home at just the right time, an inbound commuter rail train passes the station as I'm waiting (and, frequently, as a train leaving service pulls into the Wellington yard). It's conceivable, then, that I could try to get myself to Malden in the morning (either by taking the 101 bus or the orange line), take the commuter rail to North Station, and then take EZRide to MIT. That's probably slightly gratuitous, but it probably also doesn't take longer than the subway.
So, thinking about Malden and that commuter rail line, I think I'm expecting there to be a small rectangular yellow sign with the letters "D.I.B." on the outbound, but not the inbound, end of the Malden Center commuter rail platform. This, in turn, would mean that the outbound train between Malden and Wyoming would be a little slow, though still faster than the orange line. I've only been that way once, and don't remember noticing if it was particularly fast or slow.
Really, trains need little monitors somewhere where properly geeky passengers can see the current state of the signal system and the location and speed of the train. :-)
