Eve of Destruction?
Is it just me or does the Green Line seem to be teetering on the eve on destruction?
I’ve been riding the Green Line for three years now and it has always been an unpleasant and bumpy experience. Lately though, I feel like we could go flying off the tracks at any moment. I guess the Charlie Card’s image of a man hanging out of the window of an overcrowded trolley car is an accurate artistic rendering, perhaps even a chilling foreshadowing of what’s to come?
This morning I was jostled around more than usual. It’s one thing to nearly fall over when standing up and not holding on to the rails but I was sitting in one of the single seats on an old train. We obviously tilted off the tracks somewhat because the entire car jumped. We were all tossed around like toys. The driver didn’t make an announcement or anything, we just kept speeding and bumping and flailing along.
It’s bad enough that they can’t spray some WD-40 on the tracks near Boylston Station — that screeching is both deafening and nauseating — but now we have to be bruised and broken as well.
Last month nine people were injured in an accident after two Green Line trains collided. Next time we all might not be so lucky….
I think the tragic irony of the following image says enough.
MBTA-OK!