Just curious, why is it safe to cross the tracks on the park street station? I assume those are protected somehow?

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i was shocked when i walked by the other day and saw it wasn't open yet. has to be close to a year at this point.

Summer of '22.

I remember them from my childhood, I miss them

I still see them on the cape in the summer

This started construction around like June

I habe't seen one since moving up here in 2012. Didn't think they lived in the area at all.

Damn really

"Things that work everywhere else won't work here because we're special"

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There wouldn't be any conductors if we had modern trains and signaling systems.

Putting up barriers would be a huge undertaking for the MBTA as it requires the trains to stop in the exact same spot every time they pull up to the platform. This would require replacing the existing signaling system and train cars. Much of the T uses an outdated analog signaling system, which is only now being replaced with a digital system. Likewise much of the T's rolling stock is decades old and won't be fully replaced for another decade or two.

This is some Darwin type s##t. Was he rescuing a toddler that got thrown onto the tracks?

Excuse me while I jump into the polar bear paddock.

idk it feels pretty crazy that anyone could reach the third rail right now. you'd have to go down onto the tracks which is obviously not where anyone should be

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1184092225080296/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF

This just seems like a low priority investment compared to getting the trains actually working consistently and paying conductors fairly. this is a rare accident anyway, it just doesn't seem worth it from a cost benefit perspective.

For Boston, city of 100 year old motorized sardine cans that run every 45 minutes, this is definitely a big ask.

While all true, safety barriers are used in other parts of the world to great success. Just another example of the sad state of the mbta

Barriers have to be placed on the platforms. Drunk people will break said barriers. Old trains can't stop exactly on their marks. Barriers are expensive. MBTA doesn't have any money.

People will look back at stuff like this in 300 years like we look back at putting leaches on people to suck out their bad blood. It cannot be that crazy of a project to put up barriers

It’s mass hysteria. Apparently nothing has ever smelled weird before this. So if it does, it must mean it’s from Ohio 🙄

If it’s anything like the Times Square canes, probably another 6 month wait.

Walked by yesterday with the door open and looked nowhere near ready