Last night, Brooke and I were walking from a bar on Boylston St. to the Park St. T stop. As we approached the entrance, we waded through a fairly thick crowd of folks that were being directed by police away from the entrance and across the street. They'd already put up that yellow barrier tape around the entrance and police vehicles were parked, lights a flashin', all over the place. No one seemed to know what was going on.
We decided to walk to the Downtown Crossing station to catch the Red line, thinking that maybe it was just something wrong at the entrance to Park. We got there, walked in and immediately out because of the massive horde that had already assembled waiting for the next Red Line train heading north. On our way out, we asked the station attendent what was going on and he said that the Red and Green lines were both 'temporarily shutdown' due to a 'police action'. Whatever the hell that means.
We decided to walk past Park St towards Cambridge thinking that we could either catch a cab or be lucky enough to find the trains running again by the time we got to the Charles MGH station. I called my little brother on the way and asked him to check online to see if there were any news flashes regarding this but no dice. By the time we got to MGH, the trains were running again so we hopped on for the two stops it would take to get home. Crisis averted and all is right again with the world.
Here's what's disturbing me, though: there has been absolutely NO news coverage of what transpired last night. Nothing on the Boston Herald or Tribune websites, nothing @ the NYTimes' site, nothing on the local NPR stations site, nothing on the local cable news this morning, nothing on the Transit Authority's website. I mean NOTHING is out there. This isn't Atlanta, where no one would notice that MARTA was shut down for half an hour. This is the Red Line @ Park St; one of the central downtown stations in a subway system whose police chief recently admitted isn't adequately prepared in the event of a terrorist attack. Last night's event is News and yet no one is reporting on it. Why?
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That was weird for sure you would have thought that with all that was going on some reporter would have reported something. A bit scary to think about and does make one wonder what the heck was going on. I know that there are probably a lot of things that we do not hear about in the news as it is pretty well controled but still makes one wonder....take care. Love, Mom
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