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I know that you're going to think I'm a bit sad, but I've been recording the train arrival times at Park Street on my way home from work for the last couple of months, for the benefit of those awful bigheads on the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
b0st0n community (and please remind me to edit this bit out before I cross-post this there). Basically, the Green Line is split off into four sections designated by letter, and everyone thinks that their train is always the last to arrive. So I've been putting this together to see what really happens - as you'll be able to see, my travel time back from work is fairly arbitrary, so hopefully this will give a decent impression of train times across the evening. My train is the C-line.
( Hideous Excel-HTML table and analysis )
So in conclusion, we've really nothing to complain about. Apart from those three mysterious gaps you see in the table - those are the times when the red line train failed completely and I never got to Park Street at all. (Once because of a small fire in a bin, the second time because of a "police investigation" at Kendall, and the third time because I just couldn't stand it any more.)
But we've now reached winter again, and I'm anticipating the T having as many problems with a millimetre-thick layer of snow on the line and some slight dampness as they did last year. I'll make sure to keep this going and see if there's as much of a difference as I think. Of course, they try to reassure us that everything is all right in their adverts (this one from a billboard a couple of years ago).
It could be just me, but I don't think that they noticed the tone that I get from that advert - doesn't it seem that the model is actually trying to hold back laughter at looking at the claim that the T's winter schedule is in any way reliable? Additionally, the train is on the right hand line, which means that it's actually leaving rather than arriving (something all too common in the mornings when five trains limp past in the wrong direction for you before the first one you saw comes back). The rather large chasm between this and what actually happens was enough to convince people that the MBTA were in fact living in an alternate reali-T.
b0st0n community (and please remind me to edit this bit out before I cross-post this there). Basically, the Green Line is split off into four sections designated by letter, and everyone thinks that their train is always the last to arrive. So I've been putting this together to see what really happens - as you'll be able to see, my travel time back from work is fairly arbitrary, so hopefully this will give a decent impression of train times across the evening. My train is the C-line.( Hideous Excel-HTML table and analysis )
So in conclusion, we've really nothing to complain about. Apart from those three mysterious gaps you see in the table - those are the times when the red line train failed completely and I never got to Park Street at all. (Once because of a small fire in a bin, the second time because of a "police investigation" at Kendall, and the third time because I just couldn't stand it any more.)
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It could be just me, but I don't think that they noticed the tone that I get from that advert - doesn't it seem that the model is actually trying to hold back laughter at looking at the claim that the T's winter schedule is in any way reliable? Additionally, the train is on the right hand line, which means that it's actually leaving rather than arriving (something all too common in the mornings when five trains limp past in the wrong direction for you before the first one you saw comes back). The rather large chasm between this and what actually happens was enough to convince people that the MBTA were in fact living in an alternate reali-T.
