November 29, 2007
How to Put the MBTA in Your Cell Phone
It's official. You can now put Charlie in your cell phone or on your computer. The T has a big, fat announcement on its home page, featuring an image of a gleeful woman. She's happy now, but she hasn't seen the charges that will result from all her text messages.
Anyway, Bostonist has signed up. You can choose the "mode of service" you prefer: commuter rail, subway, bus, silver line, and boat. (Thank goodness the T realizes that the Silver Line is a mutant hybrid and therefore stands on its own.) Then you can pick which line you want to follow. In the trial run, you can choose up to three lines to follow.
Since we'd be power users, we're just having them sent to the ol' e-mail address 'cause we're cheap. But we haven't heard anything from Charlie yet. Have you?
Image of happy T lady from mbta.com.



I just got one for the Stoughton line (train 978 is a disabled train and has been cancelled...).
Funny thing though - this morning I took the 10:40 out of Stoughton, and while it left the station on time, it arrived at South Station 40 mins late due to a "power outage affecting the signals" and the whole time I'm sitting on it I was wondering where the hell my text message was. Never did get one...
Update: Last night my 6:30 train was not only 30 minutes late leaving the station, but due to an incoming train we sat for 10 minutes at Canton Center...
I am seriously considering moving back to the city...
Sorry - forgot to mention that there was no text message for last nights fiasco either :(