I feel like I just left Logan airport, and now I’m back. The trip to the airport wasn’t quite as smooth as usual. Despite a good start with a quickly arriving Red Line train, the rest of my journey was a bit more bumpy. At the very next stop, MGH, the MBTA decided that it was necessary for the train to sit still for 5 min (thus once again proving that the MBTA is in serious needs of an operations student… do you know where we can find one?)
The Silver Line took forever to show up, and when it finally did, and entire herd of travels with luggage were ready to storm the 3 doors of the accordion style bus.
The bus took several minutes to pack to a full sardine level before shooting down the private silver line tunnel, where at each stop more people tried to get on, thus prolonging the length of the stops. The bus then pulled out of the tunnel and onto the streets headed for the airport just as the thunderstorm hit. We then headed into the big-dig tunnel which is shared by all traffic going to the airport only to be stuck in a traffic jam due to an accident in the very long tunnels. We finally got through that and onto the airport where each terminal stop was greatly lengthen due to the quantity of people on the bus, and my stop was naturally the last stop.
While timing was cut a little closer than expected, it all worked out an I’m on may way. Regardless, that was hands down, the worst trip to the airport that I have ever experienced. It was almost the perfect storm of delays. Sorry for the rant, but sometimes I wonder why people like to live in cities.
At least there was a rainbow at the end of all of the frustration…. Literally.
