Keolis today released a list of trains it says will start running again on Monday as it works to restore full service by the end of the month. The new trains should bring commuter rail back to about 75% of its pre-snow schedule.
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Yay for more trains, BUT, BUT, BUT....
By issacg
Thu, 03/12/2015 - 3:10pm
did anyone else see this piece in Commonwealth? This seems like a particularly egregious kind of interference. I also think this is the first of many things that we are going to see that fall into the category of Keolis hitting back.
Goodness
By anon
Thu, 03/12/2015 - 3:57pm
That's not a good look for the MBTA.
Definitely malfeasance....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 03/12/2015 - 4:19pm
... on the part of the MBTA.
So anyone think Keolis will
By anon
Thu, 03/12/2015 - 3:31pm
So anyone think Keolis will ever bid on running the MBTA CR again, or walk away in disgust like Amtrak did in the early 2000s?
Ooh, that includes 501!
By Ari O
Thu, 03/12/2015 - 3:51pm
The 4:20 outbound from South Station to Worcester that doesn't stop at Back Bay because, uh, Back Bay is closed at that hour. Yup, 4:20 a.m. Stops at:
South Station
Yawkey
Framingham
Grafton
Worcester
Anyone have any clue why that train would stop at Grafton at 5:20 outbound? And someone ought to ride that train some time and report back to UHub. Would be a great puff piece for a Globe reporter.
And how does anyone catch
By anon
Fri, 03/13/2015 - 1:33pm
And how does anyone catch that train at South Station when the subway won't be open for another hour? Unless they missed the last train and were waiting all night.
One train not really "new".
By Frode
Thu, 03/12/2015 - 3:53pm
Train 742, the 7:26 am from Mansfield, is not really "new", it's just being restored to its regular time. It has been running as an "extra" in front of Train 808, the 7:44 am departure from Mansfield, for the last week and a half. So there's no real increase in capacity, unless they continue to run an extra with train 808.
I haven't trusted it to actually be there as an "extra"
By trickycrayon
Fri, 03/13/2015 - 8:00am
...so I'm happy it'll be back at its normal time. I work in Cambridge, so I can't wait for a train around 7:44 that will get me to South Station by 8:45 and therefore to work by 9:30. The 7:26 was perfect because it got me to SS in time to get to work by 8:45, and I always knew I'd get a seat.
I'm just taking this as a win because it means I won't have to get up at 5 AM to make the 5:55 in anymore (which I do because I don't trust anything later to have room for me to sit).
Why does a train that gets to
By anon
Fri, 03/13/2015 - 1:25pm
Why does a train that gets to South Station 23 minutes earlier get you to work 45 minutes earlier?
Awesome, another series of
By Craig D
Thu, 03/12/2015 - 4:22pm
Awesome, another series of absolutely useless trains on the Worcester line.
These aren't like cheese...
By Ami
Thu, 03/12/2015 - 6:23pm
Extra is a word used to describe cheese - not getting our sad commuter rail trains wheezing to 75%...
Needham needs to add the train which hits Rozzie after 7... Worried we'll end up losing it and getting another useless 12:00 train...
That is what I think they are
By anon
Fri, 03/13/2015 - 8:36am
That is what I think they are going to do - get rid of the trains they haven't put back on.
So the 711am Needham train (at Bellevue) and then the 6pm from Back Bay. Because you only need a 630am train and an 8am train (again both from Bellevue) to get into the city. And there is no need for a train from 525pm to 630pm from Back Bay. No need at all.
The minimal Haverhill line additions do almost nothing
By roadman
Fri, 03/13/2015 - 10:12am
for the people traveling from and to Reading during the rush hour. The rhyme and reason behind which trains have been restored seems to have very little to do with passenger demand for the trains, and a lot to do with what's most convenient for their dispatchers.
And, sad to say, but I believe you're right about Keolis not reinstating some of the previous trains once the "recovery schedule" is over and they claim to be back to full strength. Sadly, when that happens, our crackerjack media will be too busy sending a barrage of meaningless tweets from the Tsarnev
circustrial to notice or care.Who decides how many trains
By anon
Fri, 03/13/2015 - 1:26pm
Who decides how many trains to run on the normal schedule, Keolis or the T?
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