Green Line starts first week of three weeks of rail service suspensions to accommodate maintenance makeover #mbta #mayorkoch

Green Line starts first week of three weeks of rail service suspensions to accommodate maintenance makeover

– News covered by Quincy Quarry with commentary added

One the out of service Orange Line escalators
A Boston 25 image

Less than a week after Orange Line rail service resumed after a month-long substitution of bus service so as to accommodate a major maintenance makeover of the tracks which surprisingly few suffered problems (for the MBTA anyway, ed.) other than at least a handful of escalators out of service, this morning ,the Green Line commenced yet another round of partial rail service disruption.  

For this latest round of rail service suspensions imposed upon the Green Line, D Line straphangers are looking at three separate nine day stints of substitute bus shuttle service to accommodate this latest long overdue maintenance makeover.

Substitute service …
A meme

The closing dates for rail service and thus substituting bus shuttles so as to facilitate the major maintenance makeover will be from September 24 to October 2, October 8 to October 16, and October 22 to October 30.

At the same time, there will be no substitute bus service provided at the D Line’s Beaconsfield station given narrow road egress to this pedestrian-oriented neighborhood station.

Given the touted success of closing down service to effect needed repairs on a so-focused 24/7 schedule without any disruptions, it is thus only fair to ask why the MBTA did not so sooner,

The flackcatcher’s flakcatcher, locally anyway …
An old ill-advised Facebook selfie

Not that the T’s flackcatchers are likely to want to take the heat at such a presser.

Also not addressed by the MBTA is if it has any plans to similarly disrupt Red Line service and so be able to address track concerns exclusively exposéd by Quincy Quarry News.

In the meanwhile, local straphangers are advising Quincy Quarry that Red Line service continues to suck even more than the cellar dwelling yet again this season Boston Red Sox.

Whodathunk that even worse than the Sox was even possible?

Not even by the T,

MIA — quelle surprise …
A Quincy Quarry PhotoShop Phun Team graphic

At the same time, however, one should make note of the fact that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch, who is also the senior member of the MBTA Board of Directors as well as the has been the Chair of the MBTA Advisory Board for a decade, has yet to make any comment about the problems with the Red Line even though they are making commuting a nightmare for his constituents at his day job..

So what also for the fact that his ongoing plans to see many thousands of new mostly apartments build in Quincy are predicated on a Transit Oriented Development design ethos.even though many public transit commuters are continuing to work remotely for at least some of their workweeks.

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