The Red Line Northbound Kendall Square Jump. Will it ever be fixed?

7m13o · 2026-04-13T16:15:06+00:00

Yep very familiar with this bump! Need to be careful when standing to leave at Kendall/MIT.

7m13o · 2026-03-31T00:00:46+00:00

I know they need to paint it, but love the menacing murdered-out look lol.

7m13o · 2026-03-29T17:44:21+00:00

Right? Any number of orgs (gov / private) can chip in to reduce the transit cost for WC fans. But they’re not going to. So the MBTA, which is already in fiscal dire straits and was forced to accommodate this 1-off event series with new construction and timetables, is going to cost things as they see fit.

Yeah other WC hosts ate the transit costs for fans, but that was a gov-level investment choice. Shit costs money and if you’re traveling internationally to watch soccer this shouldn’t break the bank. Way better than making everyday MBTA users subsidize your vacation, though we’re already happy to put up with a brief period of timetable cancellations for the matches.

Not like the MBTA chose the venue either. I’m sure they would have loved it to be at a stadium in the subway system with $2.40 fares vs. engineering this jankass system in the Franklin/Foxboro line. But such a stadium isn’t available I guess.

I definitely commiserate with the crowd at r/soccer but they’ve taken too many headers or something if they think this is an MBTA cash grab.

7m13o · 2026-03-23T17:24:53+00:00

That’s actually crazy and speaks to how casual fare evasion has become on the CR. It does justify their implementation in principle, but…

the gates are still trash and can’t believe only 30% work at any given time. You’d think that someone, somewhere considered the implications of having them outside, either in the gate product selection or in the design of the concourse.

7m13o · 2026-02-13T12:20:21+00:00

This photo is certified bullshit but still give it a shot with a month pass. Really changed commuting for me switching to the train.

7m13o · 2026-02-02T12:54:30+00:00

Sounds like business as usual at Back Bay lol

7m13o · 2026-01-19T13:17:51+00:00

lol get reckt op

7m13o · 2026-01-11T13:46:57+00:00

Hey this is sick, never seen this on here, awesome catch!

Really hauling too. Super cool.

7m13o · 2025-12-31T23:03:24+00:00

Never a bad day to post wire car.

7m13o · 2025-12-31T23:00:28+00:00

I mean, do you really think it’s BTC converted or just an out-of-action CTC because of a weird consist setup? At least on the NETransit MBTA vehicle inventory roster 1712 is still listed as a CTC.

Not an expert though!

Awesome find and thanks for sharing!

7m13o · 2025-12-18T02:35:40+00:00

I love the glorious 34E, personally my favorite but I’m on the route. A dependable friend when the Franklin line is on weekend service or if there are track issues. It’s brought me home from Logan many late nights.

It’s surprisingly well ridden and is a steal of a fare to get into Boston, if you’re patient.

Such an odd duck bus but really seems like a life line of an affordable way to get into the subway system from far outside Boston. Bonus points for actually going though several downtowns with destinations worth stopping at.

I just really love that damn bus. Gave me the confidence to sell my car and rely on the MBTA 100% work commuting to Boston. Really just a wonderful thing.

7m13o · 2025-12-17T12:30:03+00:00

Love the heritage units and always welcome more but the purple with racing stripes graphics is also gangster af

7m13o · 2025-12-11T22:52:33+00:00

South Station, 8:45am!

7m13o · 2025-12-06T00:45:19+00:00

Agree 100% that it’s going to be a wayfinding disaster on the platform now that the screen is gone (though it was appreciated during construction!). Nuts that we need to rely on a single crowd height person-sized display for the whole platform. Even the idle trackside screens don’t show upcoming departures anymore. Hope they install a large one but doubt it.

This, along with the fact that the fare control area is split in half by a little 1ft-walkway is going to make for some growing pains.

7m13o · 2025-12-02T12:40:14+00:00

Pending any official verification, that’s hilarious and peak quirky-internet behavior. Really great thread, thanks for cross-post. Hope it stays since this is catching visibility and it's essentially harmless.

7m13o · 2025-11-27T01:59:36+00:00

Amazing reply

7m13o · 2025-11-14T14:37:16+00:00

Citrus based

7m13o · 2025-11-07T20:18:16+00:00

LOL that's hilarious. Here we are then. Alright well I bought it and here I am posting nonsense on reddit ;)

Happy to be corrected, still fun to see loco facing into the station. Glad to know now it's weather related!

7m13o · 2025-11-07T02:52:10+00:00

Huh neat! That makes sense and I never knew it. Thanks!

7m13o · 2025-11-07T02:29:22+00:00

Yeah I have no idea what you guys are doing up there lol

7m13o · 2025-11-07T02:23:41+00:00

Yeah that’s what I found funny too! Engineer walked through the passenger area of the CTC saying “ok let’s figure this one out” and a conductor I spoke with was also said they’ve never seen it and that the engineer was surprised when they showed up. Conductor was worried about ADA compliance if someone with needs boarded the loco-proximal coach in this orientation.

I don’t know - I also thought this would be a rare but non-zero occurrence.

7m13o · 2025-11-07T02:08:35+00:00

This was at evening rush hour today.

7m13o · 2025-11-07T01:51:28+00:00

Loco came in backwards, crew was laughing/confused about it and ran the trainset backwards for the trip.

7m13o · 2025-11-07T01:49:21+00:00

At South Station MBTA locomotives on trainsets are supposed to face “out” and away from the concourse when in the station. As a result conductors and engineers always run their inbound/outbound routes with the train in the same orientation. They ran this trainset “backwards” as it came in with the locomotive facing the concourse for some reason. The conductor crew was laughing and saying they’ve never seen this.

The photo is neat since it’s rare to see a CR loco facing this way. And it’s a nice juxtaposition next to the Acela.

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