Please explaine these Green Line signals.
Double yellow.
Fifty years ago, I asked an operator what a double-yellow meant. IIRC, they only were at station entrances and it meant that a train was already in the station. The operator was to stop at a double-yellow and then crawl into the station. So far, I've never seen them other than at station entrances. Has anything changed in fifty years?
Yesterday, I made a round-trip from Waban to Longwood. The outbound leg was in car 3900. In addition to the motorman, there was one other MBTA employee (supervisor?) in the car. As we approached Reservoir, outbound, there was a double-yellow just before the switch to Cleveland Circle. The operator came to a stop. Ten (?) seconds later, the operator yelled at the supervisor (sitting in the middle section of the car) that the double-yellow wasn't changing. Pause, pause, pause. Fifteen seconds later, the supervisor(?) tells the operator to proceed. WTF? Was the fact that I was in a type-9 an issue?
What does a red light mean (besides stop)?
On my way inbound to Longwood, I had noticed two MBTA employees standing at the east end of the Newton Center Station. They appeared to be chatting. An hour later, I was westbound. As the train approached Newton Center, there was a red light within sight of the station (and the two MBTA employees). Odd, I thought, I never saw a train in front of us. The car stopped, as expected. Almost immediately, the operator picked up the phone and said something like, "This is car 900 at signel (number) which is red. I will wait one minute before proceeding" and he hung up the phone. One minute later, he crawled into Newton Center station. There was nothing but green signals after Newton Center. What is the speed limit after penetrating a red signal? Were the two idle MBTA employees part of this little scene? (i.e was this a test to see what operators did at red lights?)
Double yellow.
Fifty years ago, I asked an operator what a double-yellow meant. IIRC, they only were at station entrances and it meant that a train was already in the station. The operator was to stop at a double-yellow and then crawl into the station. So far, I've never seen them other than at station entrances. Has anything changed in fifty years?
Yesterday, I made a round-trip from Waban to Longwood. The outbound leg was in car 3900. In addition to the motorman, there was one other MBTA employee (supervisor?) in the car. As we approached Reservoir, outbound, there was a double-yellow just before the switch to Cleveland Circle. The operator came to a stop. Ten (?) seconds later, the operator yelled at the supervisor (sitting in the middle section of the car) that the double-yellow wasn't changing. Pause, pause, pause. Fifteen seconds later, the supervisor(?) tells the operator to proceed. WTF? Was the fact that I was in a type-9 an issue?
What does a red light mean (besides stop)?
On my way inbound to Longwood, I had noticed two MBTA employees standing at the east end of the Newton Center Station. They appeared to be chatting. An hour later, I was westbound. As the train approached Newton Center, there was a red light within sight of the station (and the two MBTA employees). Odd, I thought, I never saw a train in front of us. The car stopped, as expected. Almost immediately, the operator picked up the phone and said something like, "This is car 900 at signel (number) which is red. I will wait one minute before proceeding" and he hung up the phone. One minute later, he crawled into Newton Center station. There was nothing but green signals after Newton Center. What is the speed limit after penetrating a red signal? Were the two idle MBTA employees part of this little scene? (i.e was this a test to see what operators did at red lights?)
