Orange Line escalators out of service even as rail service resumes #mbta

Orange Line escalators out of service even as rail service resumes

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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added

Lace up your climbing boots …
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The one out of service escalator reported on the Orange Line earlier this week by the MBTA has increased to at least five.per a local broadcast news outlet.

Unclear, however, if five escalators out of service actually all that many historically speaking when it comes to an MBTA subway line.

In any event, an MBTA flackcatcher deflected with the following spin: “It should be noted that all of these stations have functioning elevators and the stations remain fully accessible to people of all abilities.” 

“Me, ride the MBTA?”
Quincy Quarry file photo of senior MBTA Board of Directors member Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch

Further foisted: “… (t)he T is currently in the process of ordering parts to start long-awaited repairs on the Sullivan Square and Community College stops. 

Only but in the process of ordering?

One frustrated straphanger feels that it is time the state takes more drastic steps. “Make (MBTA leaders, ed.) take the T for a month,” he said.

The straphanger added, “hopefully they can use these bathrooms, and hopefully they don’t have any impairments like my back is hurting so I need the escalators.”

And in the meanwhile, Quincy Quarry has been receiving reports from surely just as fed-up Quincy straphangers of slow Red Line service, delayed trains, and apparently taken out of service equipment..

One of the nicer MBTA bathrooms
– Quincy Quarry News exclusive file photo

Source: The Trains are running, but many MBTA escalators are not.

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