Sunday, September 7

Overcrowding? Not on the Brunswick Line!

I was rooting through some old correspondence using MARC as key and came across this from August (emphasis is mine):


I am curious if, in your world, you have ever come across this…

[a CSX conductor], tells the passengers of his daily trains that they must remain seated until the conductors announce the next station stop. This conductor won't even allow more passengers onto his train if there is no more seating room. He has threatened to throw people off his train who stand up in the seating area in conversation with other passengers.

As you can imagine, no one at MARC or CSX seems to care to get involved. Any thoughts?
That conductor should be promoted! He obviously cares about the comfort and safety of the passengers in his charge. I think my correspondent is of a different mind. If he were to spend some time on the 6:40 after the 6:05 has been cancelled on the Penn Line during tourist season he would quickly appreciate the Brunswick Line conductor's efforts.

3 comments:

michelle said...

i would hate that conductor. i get on at new carrollton heading home to odenton, and there is never any seats. i would never get home!

Mike Netherland said...

Oh I know, Michelle. I see you crowding the platform everyday, and at nearly 7pm. I always think, where are these poor people going to sit? The solution isn't to pack people in like pickled herring and hope that some can get off at their stops. No. The solution is more trains running more frequently with less breakdowns.

Anonymous said...

I used to ride the Brunswick line. it was crowded and got worse everyday. trains were regularly cancelled, not on time, and then MARC got 'new' cars.' they were the old cars from the chicago train system that they had sold to MARC for use on the brunswick line. they were like 50 years old and smelled like hobos had lived in them.
GAWD i hated riding MARC.
Great bolg tho.