Lots to chew on in this report on the Alewife station closure:
*Repairs will be upward of $1M, but how much are the shuttling ops, and loss of time/productivity of thousands of station patrons having to remap their entire transpo patterns?
*Alewife apparently has 2,471 spaces to store crash-machines. How many people could we house in that space?
*Crash was intentional. Let's name/shame every news outlet that called this an "accident."
*When's Alewife reopening?
As a former resident of the Alewife area, it's also sad to me that this article (and seemingly everyone else) thinks of Alewife only as an end-of-line station that exists solely for Lexington's benefit.
*Thousands* of people live within a short walk of the station now, including residents of the 500+ affordable units at Rindge Towers. One guy paid his $9, and for reasons unknown, used his car to shut down a critical transpo mode for those thousands of people. When do their voices get heard?
NBC10 just reported that they’re partially reopening the Alewife garage tomorrow, but still not running any trains? What? WHAT?
@bikepedantic they are planning on doing some work + weekend shuttling at the end of February from Alewife and I really hope they have evaluated if they can move a bit of that work to now to reduce future shutdowns.
@inliuofjoan that would be a nice upside
@inliuofjoan All I know in my soul is that if they treated full closures as service tragedies that disrupted people’s lives as much as they do, MBTA would find a way to cram in some extra work right now.
@bikepedantic doubt they've thought about it and instead I get twitter randos making excuses for the T for not doing that.