I visited this station with @NightErrantry, we found that the walkways are not actually enclosed: their walls are 100% porous
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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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Build roofs. Install high platforms. Install fare gates. Replace loco-hauled fleet with DMUs. Sell concessions. We can do it!
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