Train 523 left South Station at 5 p.m. Monday and was supposed to arrive at Worcester at 6:20 p.m. Due to an engine failure, it arrived at 9:04 p.m., said Scott Farmelant, an MBCR spokesman.
Yea, I don't think an "I'm sorry" and a $4 refund is going to cut it here. 4 frigen hours? You can drive to Worcester in 45 minutes. I mean, at some point weren't people just considering hopping off and finding a bus schedule or a cab? At what point does the misery outweight the additional cost? I get aggravated if the orange line takes more than 10 minutes to pick me up, nevermind 4 frigen hours stuck on a train with the kinds of people that have to ride trains (and please, if you're arguing convenience right now just kick your own ass, how is a 4 hour commute convenient? Hell, how is the normal 1:20 convenient, again you can drive from South Station to Worcester faster than that).
Kind of makes me rethink my original stance on Obama's crazy "Highspeed Rail" ideas. At first I just laughed it off like, Oh there is a great idea, we'll improve the economy by dedicating more funding to building out a mode of transportation that was popular in the 1800's. But at the point where a 44 mile commute takes 4 hours I suppose you should consider just about anything. Hell, if we're dredging up ideas from centuries past, how about a lane on the highway for horseback riders? Or oxen driven wagons? Because somewhere around the 3 hour mark those start becoming relatively efficient, not to mention they'd break our dependance on foreign oil.
