Blown out Red Line Window
An MBTA Passenger Twitter Photo taken by Catherine Groux

– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News

Quincy continues to be slammed with all manner of unanticipated – if not also all but inexplicable – problems in the wake of The Blizzard of 2015.

The latest crisis entails the latest and fortunately less serious episode of problems at the Quincy Center MBTA station than was originally feared by Red Line passengers.

The South Shore broadsheet as well as at least two local major broadcast news services have reported that smoke filled Red Line cars in the Quincy Center station during today’s AM commute.

A typical Indonesian commute
Image from indosurflife.com

Unconfirmed at this time are rumors that the smoking train was overburdened by people trying to flee Quincy given all manner of travails they have suffered in the wake of Blizzard of 2015.
What is known is that in the resulting panic, riders broke out a number of train windows and then were reportedly rebuked by T personnel over their understandable fearing for their lives as per a Twitter post by someone on the scene.

Quincy Quarry is endeavoring to contact MBTA spokesmodel C. Browne-Sheets for comment on this latest T brownout, however, a timely response is not anticipated.

After all, we are talking the T.

Snow piles care of clearing City Hall & VIP parking spaces?
A Quincy Quarry News photo

What can be said at this time is that the MBTA has surely been struggling mightily to operate its bus operations at its Quincy Center station given the less than helpful way that City of Quincy workers have cleared snow out of the City’s City Hall and VIP commuters free parking spaces in front of the station.
In any event, as well as all but miraculously, a catastrophic disaster did not happen as there was no serious injury or fatality-causing stampeding by MBTA passengers fleeing the smokey scene.

Fully cleared City Hall and VIP parking spaces but not the taxi stand or otherwise.
A Quincy Quarry News photo
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Quincy Quarry should reach out to Quincy Chief and mayoral brother-in-law Paul “The Beav” Keenan or at least long and variously challenged Quincy Fire Department Chief Joseph Barron for comment; however, it knows all too well that no such comment would be forthcoming both in general as well as now given the potential for sanctions given the City of Quincy’s dubious snow clearing and VIP parking practices.

Quincy Quarry readers should suspect that there will be more coverage on this latest breaking badly news story in the Q.

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