Red Line Baron states as follows:
Today on the Red Line I was trying to read my new book. I had just started to get into it when the lights in our car wen out. They came on again a minute later and I went back to my book. But then they went out again, and kept going out. They'd come back on for a minute, I'd start to read, get halfway through a sentence, and they'd go out again. This happened almost the entire ride to Park Street.
I am beginning to suspect that the subway is cutting costs by playing on our assumptions of their incompetence. Like, no one would suspect that they were intentionally turning out the lights to save money--we just assume it is the train sucking as usual mixed with the usual failure to take care of equipment. Same thing with the buses. They never seem to show up when scheduled. I think they just cut buses every so often and assume that *we* will assume the bus was just caught in traffic or something.
But perhaps I sound paranoid.
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