MBTA Unveils New Countdown Clocks at Subway Stations
The MBTA’s new general manager greeted T riders Monday morning and announced additional countdown clocks at stations around the area.
Several T stations got new countdown clocks on the same day the MBTA announced its new general manager. MBTA General Manager and Rail & Transit Administrator for MassDOT Beverly Scott greeted riders on the Blue Line platform at State Station and on the Orange Line to Chinatown Station Monday morning, while the T put online countdown clocks at 24 stations, according to an MBTA press statement. There are now 190 clocks at 30 MBTA stations, with a majority of them servicing the Red, Orange and Blue lines, according to the statement. The clocks inform customers how long it will be before the next train arrives at a given stop. In the statement, Scott had this to say about her first day on the job: “I am thrilled to begin work with the MBTA …
Rob
12:55 pm on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
This past Sunday, I was at the orange line in Back Bay Station, and I waited 24 minutes for a train to arrive!!!! There was no time alert in the station. If there was I doubt I would have waited that long. As a NY'er living in Boston, I am horrified at the system in this city. more ›