So as has been the usual the commuter from Providence to Boston has been consistently 15 to 20 minutes late coming into Boston. Granted – sometimes they left Providence late but the past two days they switched it up. The commuter was there and parked in Providence Station at 6:15AM, and departed on time at 6:33AM. But still 15 minutes late into Boston.

And then there’s the Red Line subway. I get to the platform in South Station and I note the minutes to next train aren’t decrementing as the time on the clock to the upper right. It takes approximately 11 minutes to decrement the train time by 1 minute. After 20 minutes the train shows up. It’s packed. But as we get to Kendall Station an announcement is made.

Yes, from Kendall to Alewife they decided to make the train I was on an EXPRESS train, meaning they skip Central, Harvard, Porter etc. My stop is Central. So I get off the train at Kendall and wait for the NEXT Red Line. That one delivers me to the Central stop.

I once thought that only RIPTA could be a total cluster fuck – but no the MBTA takes the cake.