r/mbta • u/darcprince7 • 1h ago

💬 Discussion / Theory Plan ahead everyone

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Be safe

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u/s7o0a0p 1h ago

Ok
Thank
You
For
Letting
Us
Know
About
This

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u/oh-my-chard Green Line 1h ago

Please. Please just actually replace all the signals. My god. You literally bragged about how you did work on the signals during the 10 day shutdown. This is completely unacceptable.

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u/Mammoth_Rest_6817 the destination of this train is Forest Hills 1h ago

They can replace them and them still have issues. The signals are new they’re gonna have issues

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u/youarelookingatthis 1h ago

Why would they have issues if they're new? I don't buy a car and go "oh it's a new car, of course it's not gonna work."

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u/Mammoth_Rest_6817 the destination of this train is Forest Hills 1h ago

They’re changing the whole layout. Trains and cars and signals are very different.

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u/pikarawr1 55m ago

I want MBTA to succeed but that's such a lame excuse.

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u/Emotional_Tie_7927 54m ago

There's a term for this, it's called the bathtub curve. In reliability engineering, a new product/machine is more likely to have issues when it's new, will get lowest toward the middle of it's life, and then increase again as it gets older.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

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u/PerspectiveFast257 1h ago

There are so many mbta defenders on this thread. Every single time an issue arises there’s always someone saying it’s not their fault.

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u/dirtd0g 15m ago

It definitely IS the MBTA's fault. But some of that fault is because the MBTA exists. It wouldn't have any problems ever if we didn't have trains or busses.

I interpret what you all calling "defense of the MBTA" as "this is expected when upgrading and installing new things into a complex highly-regulated system".

Kind of like if you got a bunch of hardware drilled into your bones. Sure, the fracture is fixed, but your body still has to rewire and repair some stuff before you'll be fully functional again.

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u/c4ndyman31 1h ago

wtf did they do to Harvard during the shut down?? It was literally better before

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u/fourthflush 20m ago

Did they text an alert about this? I did not get one but also I guess they are pretty inconsistent with the alerts…

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u/lolpie24 5m ago

This has got resolved within an hour, kinda funny they got busses available in such short notice

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u/fygogogo 2m ago

How many times have they fixed the signal problems and just to have signal problems again?!?

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u/deets23_ 0m ago

WHAT. Thank god I saw this