Let's take a tour of the Fitchburg Line
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All the prozac in the world can't make this aesthetic tolerable...pic.twitter.com/bweZWJEYnF
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Littleton is the next stop...this is what it used to look like!pic.twitter.com/EvEmoBzUUd
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The old station building still exists, it is allegedly a "stove repair shop," lolpic.twitter.com/KmEOIeVsb2
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Although the old station was in the center of Littleton, the existing one was built near a highway intersection in the middle of nowherepic.twitter.com/J4sDij6g27
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The design is utterly insane...they put the platform very far from the entrance, accessible through two LONG rampspic.twitter.com/GecuFXxxmB
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I visited this station with
@NightErrantry, we found that the walkways are not actually enclosed: their walls are 100% porous -
Consequently, you are exposed to bitter winds *even when you're inside the walkway.* Which, I might add, is prone to getting covered in ice.
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How is it possible to fuck up in so many ways at once? IDK fam, IDK...
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Next stop is South Acton--busiest stop on the line; some trains from Boston terminate here. Recently rebuilt (no pics of it finished)pic.twitter.com/EVjvbPeJmi
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High platforms, YES! Too bad they still can't afford roofs...pic.twitter.com/6ZNYOI1vQo
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Next stop is West Concord: at last, a station with a comfy aesthetic! The building has a restaurant--"Club Car Cafe"pic.twitter.com/MedZ9jT2ET
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I've actually used this stop to get to Boston sometimes, by local standards it's decent. Low platforms tho...pic.twitter.com/lMeeRZ0IZe
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Next stop is Concord Nice building, right? Home to several businesses...but...pic.twitter.com/zl19hp89KY
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...all the trackside doors and windows have been boarded over and then *painted* to look like they're still usable. Insane.pic.twitter.com/e4wVfNzoAY
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In other words: the station building is not for anybody who's actually using the station. Folks...I am at a loss for words...
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Next stop is Lincoln--I love this pic, you can see how low platforms actually work (terribly)pic.twitter.com/Ol1f0LV9yi
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Silver Hill Station no platform, just gravel with yellow slabs of concrete marking the edge of the safe zone Nice sunset thopic.twitter.com/Wc9H2ZFJre
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Hastings Station--no sign, no info Where are the platforms? LOL, *the street is the platform,* that's where you board frompic.twitter.com/rnu6RV0zHn
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I really, really wish I was joking about that
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Kendal Green Station Could be worse, at least it has a buildingpic.twitter.com/BhNUkzacAD
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Next stop is Brandeis/Roberts, adjacent to Brandeis University Glad I could find a winter pic so you know what they look like half the yearpic.twitter.com/9wedcJbG9c
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Next stop is Waltham, a downtown stop at the heart of a large Boston suburb with many bus connections...and it looks like thispic.twitter.com/rtqKme3lqa
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Gotta love that they have a roof and high platforms for, oh, 5% of the station but not the rest
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Waverly Station located in a *very* wealthy suburb of Boston, and this is the best they can managepic.twitter.com/odp3qSZbDf
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How hard is it to build a roof over your platforms anyway?
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Belmont Station The building, used now by the Lions Club, is inaccessible to passengers--they just wait at a low platform behind itpic.twitter.com/QjZhst3PE5
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At the next stop--Porter Square--there is a connection available to the Red Line subwaypic.twitter.com/b6VhNIx0OK
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In the second pic you can see MBTA's capacity to react to snow: it has none, and had to cancel servicepic.twitter.com/KXmIaRLV2a
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...and after Porter, we reach the terminal, North Station. So: why am I bumming you out with these dismal stations?
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Mainly to demonstrate how much low-hanging fruit there is. The Fitchburg Line--and others like it--are *barely there* in the first place!
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