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hce692 t1_jeczkwj wrote

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Okay now stand here on this 6 inch curb waiting for the green line as cars whiz by going 40 on Comm Ave and the train in arms reach. A foot forward OR backward youre smoked. I can think of absolutely nothing else but death while I wait

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titty-titty_bangbang t1_jee4vgk wrote

How is that allowed???

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Darklighter10 t1_jee9le6 wrote

MBTA actually tried to close the stop several years ago partly because there was no room for a decent platform. The locals revolted when, God forbid, it was suggested they go a few blocks to another stop because this one was redundant anyway and is an unnecessary delay/stop.

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hce692 t1_jeep9ck wrote

Uhh no theres a couple of stops like this in a row on the Brighton stretch of Comm Ave. not ONE. Chestnut hill, Chiswick, Sutherland, south street all just mini sidewalks instead of stops.

Also they did close some of them like two years ago?? At the very least they could raise the curb so a car maybe slows down a LITTLE before mowing me down

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Darklighter10 t1_jef5dvt wrote

I agree the stops suck, but nothing I said was inaccurate. They tried to close chiswick (the one pictured) because it was redundant and unsafe. people threw a fit so they left it. It’s less than a ten minute walk from there to a green line stop with a full platform at Washington.

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hce692 t1_jef78nz wrote

Yeah no that is not under 10 minutes. And it’s one giant hill. My point is you blaming it on one single stop being wrong. Making people who are close walk from Chestnut Hill Ave or South Street all the way to Washington street would have been moronic. Residents are not the issue, the infrastructure ever being allowed like this in the first place is

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Darklighter10 t1_jef9inj wrote

For most people it is under 10 minutes. Google says it’s 11, and they always use a slow stroll.

At any rate, I agree with what you are saying, but that wasn’t what I was commenting on. I was referencing the one picture, of the one stop, and nothing I said was inaccurate. I was not blaming one stop for anything. You bring up fair points, but points regarding something else entirely. I was only referencing the one stop, nothing else.

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hce692 t1_jeeq70w wrote

If I had to guess they blame it on “well no one’s died yet!” And “we’d have to reconfigure six driving lanes of traffic to make room, too expensive!!!

I feel like at the very least they could raise the curb way up to a protective one?? I hate this stop as much driving past waiting passengers as I do while waiting myself. Nightmare fuel

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