Failure and redemption on the Green Line
Where: Kenmore Square T-stop
When: eight thirtyish this morning
What: a broken trolley
Who: Scores of stranded passengers
Irritation was spreading among the wannabe passengers. A woman next to me was going on about how T-workers should be fired, but weren’t going to because of the unions. I was trying to decide whether to wait for the next trolley or hail a cab…and then…out of the darkness…a two-car trolley…the mythical “trolley right behind” that T riders often hear about but rarely see…and then…another one, and another one, and, dadgummit, a fourth one! All within two minutes. I swear to God I heard some peppy guy way back in the tunnel shouting “Trolley rider…move that trolley!” It was a miracle, I tell you, a miracle!
