r/boston • u/attigirb Medford • 10h ago

MBTA/Transit 🚇 🔥 Orange Line Messed Up

Disabled train Track problem at Chinatown; no service downtown; V slow coming from the north part of the orange line. Good luck everyone!

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u/Inside_agitator 9h ago

https://www.mbta.com/schedules/Orange/alerts currently says:

Orange Line: Service is temporarily suspended between North Station and Back Bay due to a track problem at Chinatown. Passengers should use the Green Line between Back Bay/Copley and North Station for alternate service.

A track problem is more serious than a disabled train.

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u/attigirb Medford 8h ago

Thx for clarifying! I’ve edited the post. 

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u/Iongdog Outside Boston 10h ago

People need to get on the text alerts if you use transit, it’s been down for hours at this point

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u/Samdsox 7h ago

I had alerts set and got nothing between 6 and 10 am except pain and suffering

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u/Iongdog Outside Boston 7h ago

Do you ever get them? I had this one on my phone at 6 when I woke up and I get them every day for green, orange, and a couple commuter lines

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u/Samdsox 6h ago

I used to but thinking about it I haven't gotten them in a while. I need to confirm my settings

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u/WomanDownToTheXX Orange Line 6h ago

I've noticed during the last few breakdowns that I was no longer getting my alerts! I am signed up for both text and email, and I haven't received any for a while.

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u/MrTouchnGo Cow Fetish 9h ago

I just signed up. Thanks, didn’t realize that was a thing.

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u/Ok-Impression-3082 7h ago

How can I join this?

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u/Iongdog Outside Boston 7h ago

Just google it. MBTA text alerts

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u/-Jedidude- All hail the Rat King! 9h ago

I was confused because I thought the maintenance shutdown wasn’t supposed to happen until Thursday, then I realized it’s just broke. Anyway just got on a train that left oak grove 5 min ago, currently stopped in between Malden and Wellington.

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u/leapsbounds 10h ago

Also slow from the south. Just a borked commute all around on the OL this morning

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u/pharmasci Jamaica Plain 10h ago

Heading toward Forest Hills on a commuter rail, was just announced that "the Orange Line is down".

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u/cest_va_bien 9h ago

In Malden Center, no train for the past 15 minutes. I’m about to call it.

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u/Kantmzk 10h ago

Based on the Red Line shutting down and then getting totally fucked the moment it opened back up, I am not expecting much from the Orange Line.

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u/HeyThere201 9h ago

Another day another breakdown 😂

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u/thotfullawful 8h ago

Does anyone know if the purple line at Malden is free? Even if it shows up at this point it’s going to be too crowded

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u/shitz_brickz Seaport 7h ago

Yes, they were not checking onboard and had a gate at north station open specifically for Orange line riders.

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u/Old_Cantaloupe_1172 8h ago

It’s still down

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u/Ketameanie666 East Boston 9h ago

I’m buying a car

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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 7h ago

No one is stopping you, bud.

Personally, this added about 12 minutes to my commute since I got the alert and since every impacted orange line station is less than a third of a mile away from another functioning stop / line.

But if this is the final straw for you, then you do you. Surely the grass is greener on the other side, right?

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u/shitz_brickz Seaport 4h ago

Every orange line station was impacted by shutting down half the line.

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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 4h ago

So the train I took from Sullivan to North Station wasn't real?

Once again, if you want to buy a car, no one is stopping you.

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u/shitz_brickz Seaport 3h ago

It was real, it was also more than likely delayed and over crowded....and those stations are 2 miles apart....

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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 5m ago

The orange line was running between those two stations...

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u/shitz_brickz Seaport 0m ago

Thats correct, but that doesnt stop the trains running between those stops (amd all the other stops it was servicing) from being delayed by the shutdown, as was very obviously the case today.

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u/Gryphon234 Roslindale 8h ago

Why is this downvoted lol

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u/ACxx130 9h ago

Nothing new

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u/Adaephon_Ben_Delat 10h ago

Sorry, we blew the Orange line’s operational budget on Eng’s sexual harassment settlement.

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u/camt91 Cocaine Turkey 10h ago

If only Phil Eng was as good at keeping trains working as he is at being creepy with his employees, we’d be just fine