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Comment by mauvehaus | Hacker News Reader

Meanwhile, anyone in Boston who only read the headline is completely unsurprised to hear that the red line isn't running and is wondering how this merits making the front page of HN.

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Some context[1] for the non-Bostonians

   Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
   RED LINE
   Ashmont/Braintree
   4 current alerts

So it seems this line is pretty unreliable.

[1] https://www.mbta.com/schedules/Red/line

15 miles south of Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braintree,_Massachusetts

That's quite an understatement. It's currently taking 68 minutes longer than it shouuld to get from Braintree to the other end.[0]

https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/system/slowzones/?chart...

I haven't had enough coffee yet, I saw the headline and couldn't figure out why something didn't make sense reading it and I live in Boston.

Glad to see this comment to explain it.

Haven't lived in Boston since early 2018 and I've only heard worse and worse things. Good grief.

For context, the original HN title was:

BrainTree has been down for more than 7 hours now

Hahaha this is what my brain went to immediately as well

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