I got to the stop at 8:02. Naturally, the machine that terrorized me yesterday is once again blinking that it's out of order. A train arrived at 8:04, and I got on and got a seat immediately. This is usually a bad sign, and, indeed, when we got to Kenmore at 8:08, we were told that the train was going out of service.
Now I know I've ranted about this before, but, giving it some more thought...I still really don't understand this. Why do they do this? What is the point? Almost everyone getting on the train aboveground is going downtown. It's not like Kenmore is a major destination. It's not like you're really serving any purpose running a train to Kenmore and no farther. What you're doing is moving a bunch of people closer to their destination, and then forcing them to squeeze on the next train. And what does that train do that goes out of service at Kenmore? Does it go back out to the beginning of the C line to transport more people? I guess maybe that's the reason? Run C lines more frequently? But all the people you're collecting just have to wait for another train at Kenmore, so is it really saving time? Argh. Trying to ascribe logic to the actions of the Boston subway is exhausting.
Anyway, a train arrived at 8:09, and we stuffed ourselves onto it. I got off with relief at Copley at 8:14, and got on the next train to arrive, at 8:16, getting a seat immediately again.
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