Rotman's- It's Faaaantastic!

That's the winning one!

Loved Deans. Had a shop in Malden I believe

There are several on Youtube, but none with "I Doubt It!".

I still have that water country jingle memorized

Find a Dean's Home Furniture one, and you'll win the internet.

Even though Savin Hill is my station I will walk the extra half mile or so to JFK/UMass because I'm much more likely to get a northbound train in less than 15 minutes.

They could even run single track in sections so they can work on one track while trains run on the adjacent one. This is how the NYC subway is able to do all their maintenance while keeping the system running 24/7.

I'm very thankful that we finally bought a car this weekend (although in theory if the green line extension is doing ok, I might be able to take that to work).

They definitely are slower than they've ever been. Took me an hour to get from Downtown Crossing to Quincy Center where I said 'fuck it', got off, and caught the commuter rail since I was going to miss it in Braintree.

I even got a video of the red line just sitting there for over a minute, doing absolutely nothing. I was feeling sick that day too. I was not in any mood for those shenanigans.

God, I would love this.

cries in bus dependency and normalized 20min delays

I wonder what could have been accomplished over the winter holiday break for students. Even if they just did a partial shutdown of the line in that time.

Knowing the T there's no chance they'll double capacity if they do this. Probably halve it.

I lived off the Ashmont branch for 5 years. I don't envy you!

On the ashmont branch of the red line this also checks out. Whatever your wait times are north of the jfk split, you can double them south of the split. When you’re only going a couple miles it often takes the same amount of time to just walk.

There have been many times when I just walk to Kendall instead of waiting for a red line. It doesn’t really save me time but at least I get some exercise

Why can't they do partial shutdowns?

First, shutdown everything south of South Station. Then, shutdown everything north of Park St. Finally, finish the Park St to South Station work over a few weekend shutdowns.

It's the busiest line, period. There's no way to shut it down without causing problems for a whole bunch of people, both tourists and locals. Unfortunately, we seem to be at a point where the T is unable to dig their way out of this hole using only weekend or overnight shutdowns.

At least if you can figure out a viable way to shut it down in chunks you can minimize the pain at any given time.

Red is a much more tourist focused line. I suppose they could do it in late May and early June.

A full Red Line shutdown isn't going to happen. Finding enough buses for the Orange shutdown was a challenge, and Red would require even more. The way the Red Line is built also makes it much easier to shut down in chunks. They could shutdown Ashmont and run Braintree at double capacity, then switch to Braintree work and run Ashmont at double, then segmented work on the combined section, followed by a long weekend shutdown of Columbia Junction.

Wait until warmer weather and open up protected bike paths along the entire route (in addition to the usual shuttling).

I was expecting it during December, my assumption is that they're planning to do it when students are out, but there's no way they can wait that long

The slow zones need to be fixed but it really feels like a temporary fix. Slow zones are already popping back up on the Orange Line. It wasn’t even 3 months after the shutdown and now it’s running a whole 2+ minutes slower due to slow zones

I think they're trying to nurse it through to the summer. One of the criticisms of the orange line shutdown was that it happened after schools and colleges were back in session, causing a bigger disruption than if they had done it during the summer months.

My real hope, albeit unlikely, is they're trying to figure out how to shut down portions of the line rather than a total shutdown.