Saturday, June 05, 2004
‘Just had to vent a bit ...’: Reader P responds to the Blue Line post below and bemoans the T’s one-stop-too-short history of not connecting the station dots:
“Wonderful! We just paid $23M to build a station that provides all the inconvenience of the old one in a shinier package. From Coolidge Corner, it takes me at least 45 minutes to get to a terminal, with about half of that time spent waiting to change to another vehicle:
“-- Walk to the T stop (Wait - anywhere up to 20 minutes)
“-- Green Line to Government Center (Wait, and stop in the tunnel a few times)
“-- Blue line to Logan (after hauling your luggage up and down the stairs) (Wait)
“-- Bus to the terminal (stop in traffic, visit all the other terminals first)
“Contrast that with the experience of a driver:
“- Take the new, billion dollar, tunnel to central parking.
“- Ride a moving walkway to your terminal.
“What idiot thought this one up? Did it ever occur to anyone to re-route the blue line to stop at Central Parking and use the VERY SAME walkways to get people to the terminal? All they had to do was look at National Airport (DCA) -- no actual thinking was required. ... Once again we see that, as far as the T is concerned, the convenience of the customer is the last thing to be considered. Grrrrrrr.”
“Wonderful! We just paid $23M to build a station that provides all the inconvenience of the old one in a shinier package. From Coolidge Corner, it takes me at least 45 minutes to get to a terminal, with about half of that time spent waiting to change to another vehicle:
“-- Walk to the T stop (Wait - anywhere up to 20 minutes)
“-- Green Line to Government Center (Wait, and stop in the tunnel a few times)
“-- Blue line to Logan (after hauling your luggage up and down the stairs) (Wait)
“-- Bus to the terminal (stop in traffic, visit all the other terminals first)
“Contrast that with the experience of a driver:
“- Take the new, billion dollar, tunnel to central parking.
“- Ride a moving walkway to your terminal.
“What idiot thought this one up? Did it ever occur to anyone to re-route the blue line to stop at Central Parking and use the VERY SAME walkways to get people to the terminal? All they had to do was look at National Airport (DCA) -- no actual thinking was required. ... Once again we see that, as far as the T is concerned, the convenience of the customer is the last thing to be considered. Grrrrrrr.”
