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How not to get to work
Dec. 8th, 2003 10:40 amLeft home at 8:30, with the intent to catch the 95 bus to Sullivan around 8:40. Discovered that nobody had done any shovelling at all on Mystic Ave. around the bus stop, so stood out in the street, for 20 minutes, until the bus finally appeared. Traffic continued to be slow -- people were parking outside of the snow banks on Mystic, so a road that usually is over its traffic capacity was also down to one lane -- and I finally got to Sullivan just in time to miss the 9:15 CT2. (Usually if I leave home then I expect to miss the 8:50 CT2.)
There were lots of people standing around at Sullivan. This suggested that I hadn't in fact missed the CT2, but also that I might not want to catch it, since that many people implied that bus service was not even a little reliable. Tried for the orange line instead, but so did everyone else; the first train was packed to capacity, so I wound up getting on the second one. It was a long wait, which also implies that the T hadn't clued in and run full rush-hour service beyond 9:00.
If the people on my train are to be believed, they somehow came up with an empty train and ran it as an extra starting at North Station heading southbound. (Could be the empty train that passed us at Sullivan northbound, but it still feels really odd.) At Downtown Crossing, I also observed the canonical lossage with trains waiting for signals at Park Street. The T should do better about dealing with red line signals and stations.
There were lots of people standing around at Sullivan. This suggested that I hadn't in fact missed the CT2, but also that I might not want to catch it, since that many people implied that bus service was not even a little reliable. Tried for the orange line instead, but so did everyone else; the first train was packed to capacity, so I wound up getting on the second one. It was a long wait, which also implies that the T hadn't clued in and run full rush-hour service beyond 9:00.
If the people on my train are to be believed, they somehow came up with an empty train and ran it as an extra starting at North Station heading southbound. (Could be the empty train that passed us at Sullivan northbound, but it still feels really odd.) At Downtown Crossing, I also observed the canonical lossage with trains waiting for signals at Park Street. The T should do better about dealing with red line signals and stations.
