Worst...Commute...EVAR!
Feb. 18th, 2010 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiTimeline of an Evening Commute:
4:30 PM: Leave Wakefield
4:50: Merge onto exit off 93 toward Storrow Drive
4:51: Driver (O) notes "Check Engine" light illuminated. Nowhere to pull over.
4:53: O finds place to pull over (near Teddy Ebersol Fields at junction of Charles St. and Storrow Drive). Smoke coming from under hood.
4:54:gnomi calls mabfan to tell him she and O are broken down on Storrow and waiting for AAA.
4:55-5:30:gnomi waits O for tow truck.
5:30: Tow truck not affiliated with AAA arrives. Apparently, statey passing by noted broken down vehicle and called tow truck. O starts discussion with driver about fees.
5:31:gnomi heads on foot to Science Park T stop (which she can see is not very far at all), at urging of O.
5:35:gnomi boards E train toward Park St.
5:45 (give or take):gnomi changes to C train at Boylston, having seen it on adjacent track at Park.
6:00 (again, approximately): C train arrives at Kenmore. Unloads and loads passengers, does not move.
6:08: Driver leaves C train
6:09: Different driver boards C train.gnomi asks about delay, is told first driver took sick and asked for a replacement.
6:10: C train arrives at St. Mary's.gnomi calls in take-out.
6:20: C train arrives at Coolidge Corner; driver announces train is going express to Cleveland Circle
6:30:gnomi picks up dinner
6:40:gnomi arrives back at Coolidge Corner. Sees train in distance.
6:43:gnomi gets on train.
6:52: Train approaches Washington Square. Driver announces train is going express to Cleveland Circle.
6:53:gnomi waits for new train
6:55:gnomi on new train. Now riding with across-the-street neighbor
7:01 PM:gnomi arrives home
4:30 PM: Leave Wakefield
4:50: Merge onto exit off 93 toward Storrow Drive
4:51: Driver (O) notes "Check Engine" light illuminated. Nowhere to pull over.
4:53: O finds place to pull over (near Teddy Ebersol Fields at junction of Charles St. and Storrow Drive). Smoke coming from under hood.
4:54:
gnomi calls mabfan to tell him she and O are broken down on Storrow and waiting for AAA.4:55-5:30:
gnomi waits O for tow truck.5:30: Tow truck not affiliated with AAA arrives. Apparently, statey passing by noted broken down vehicle and called tow truck. O starts discussion with driver about fees.
5:31:
gnomi heads on foot to Science Park T stop (which she can see is not very far at all), at urging of O.5:35:
gnomi boards E train toward Park St.5:45 (give or take):
gnomi changes to C train at Boylston, having seen it on adjacent track at Park.6:00 (again, approximately): C train arrives at Kenmore. Unloads and loads passengers, does not move.
6:08: Driver leaves C train
6:09: Different driver boards C train.
gnomi asks about delay, is told first driver took sick and asked for a replacement.6:10: C train arrives at St. Mary's.
gnomi calls in take-out.6:20: C train arrives at Coolidge Corner; driver announces train is going express to Cleveland Circle
6:30:
gnomi picks up dinner6:40:
gnomi arrives back at Coolidge Corner. Sees train in distance.6:43:
gnomi gets on train.6:52: Train approaches Washington Square. Driver announces train is going express to Cleveland Circle.
6:53:
gnomi waits for new train6:55:
gnomi on new train. Now riding with across-the-street neighbor7:01 PM:
gnomi arrives home
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Date: 2010-02-19 04:07 am (UTC)I got on the train at 8:15 at Alewife. Around 8:45, I got to Davis, the next stop on the line. I got off, planning to take a bus, and ran into Amanda in the station. She ended up giving us both a ride into the office, we got in around 10:00.
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Date: 2010-02-19 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-19 05:03 am (UTC)Yaay take-out, though.
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Date: 2010-02-19 07:00 am (UTC)Second worst: several times I'd leave late enough that I'd get to Haymarket as a celtics or Briuns game was getting out. This is before North Station was rebuilt into a superstation that's all connected. So I'd get to Haymarket and see a car packed...wait for the next car...and it would be packed. Wait for the next car...not packed. But wait, it's an E train so skip. Next car packed...and so on.
Worst thing about Wakefield was the bloody commute.
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Date: 2010-02-19 10:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-19 03:50 pm (UTC)But I'm glad you made it home :)