Globe discovery of the day
The Boston Globe has finally discovered that MBTA announcements and electronic message boards don’t work.
They’re often actively broken or wrong, too, not just disconnected:
At Back Bay station, an electronic message board flashes the word ”Rebooting,” replaced a few moments later with meaningless red dashes. At the commuter rail station in Natick, an electronic sign displays the incorrect time so often, passengers simply ignore it.
Of course, anyone who actually uses the system could have told them that they’ve been like this for years and years, if not for the entire history of the system.
Perhaps tomorrow’s Globe will tell us that water is wet.
August 10th, 2004 at 11:57
Heh!
I especially like when the Back Bay board tells you its baud rate - a reassuring 9600 bps.
August 10th, 2004 at 12:01
This just in!
Chris likes how the Globe breaks the news today that message boards on the T usually don’t work: … Of course, anyone who actually uses…
August 10th, 2004 at 19:00
MBTA announcements
The Globe has an article today on the public announcements on the MBTA, specifically the ones never heard: In an enduring problem for the one million people who daily use the MBTA, the transit system is still struggling to communicate