Quincy News: Orange Line first day of shutdown uneventful. So far anyway. #mbta #charliebaker

Orange Line first day of shutdown uneventful. So far anyway …

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Commuters hanging on for their lives
Image from indosurflife.com

Orange Line shutdown Day One was uneventful.

Media frenzy notwithstanding, the first day of the MBTA’s unprecedented extended closure so as to endeavor a maintenance makeover as well as actually see a lot of work actually done turned out to be all but uneventful.

Granted, straphangers suffered only to be expected confusion and delay traveling from here to there on substitute public transition bus service.

At the same time, the only accident incident reported was by a local broadcast media reporting on how one of the much taller than a MBTA bus charter buses now in use to provide bus bridge shuttle service suffered a minor fender bender sort of ding – the top front of the bus tapped an overhead beam of a sort which shorter MBTA buses can travel under without incident.

“Storrowed” yet again in the Back Bay
A Massachusetts State Police image

In other words, the charter bus got “storrowed.”

Further gobsmacking, Sunday was similarly quiet.

The true test, however, will be today’s first workday commutes.

Even so, Quincy Quincy News is going to go out on a ledge by publishing the following hoped-for outcome and so concurring with a reportor tied to MASSter LIst, a regional political and intrastate government activities news clipping service.

Then again, Quincy Quarry does have its favorite hot sauce at the ready if things end up going south and it thus end up having to eat the following words.

After all, the T happens …

I'd also like to hope that the even the T has the good sense to announce a 30 days shutdown when the secret work plan is projected at more like 21 days if things go "normally" for the T and so be able to declare victory when restoring rail service a week +/- early. 2
— QuincyQuarry (@QuincyQuarry) August 20, 2022

“The hidden brilliance of the T” via https://t.co/9vgoN58hW7
“It faces “existential threats, … including the delay of new trains for the Orange & Red lines. And the Globe’s Beth Teitell takes public transportation cynicism to a new level, pondering whether the T brass is … 3
— QuincyQuarry (@QuincyQuarry) August 20, 2022

“… trolling” the populace, in effect making things more difficult than they need to be as a form of payback for our endless scorn.
I don’t think so. What the T really is doing with the Orange Line closure is practicing clever expectations management: … 4
— QuincyQuarry (@QuincyQuarry) August 20, 2022

(IMHO, there always should be dedicated bus lanes.) 6
If there isn't total chaos, T then will look like it has its act together, at least for a while. And for the motorists snarled in traffic in Sullivan Square, etc., you were duly warned. 6
— QuincyQuarry (@QuincyQuarry) August 20, 2022