badstar

I left the office on lunch to go and take care of my check. When I do this, I leave the office at the time the light rail is due at Timonium. The train usually gets to Gilroy a couple of minutes after I get up to the stop. it works well.

Tday I walked out of the office and had barely left the parking lot when the train came around. Great. It was early. I hoped like hell the train was just early and would have to sit and wait for the train coming from Hunt Valley to get there, since it's still single-track after Gilroy...it sat there. I got there and on the train. And then there was an announcement "I TOLD you that everyone must leave the train. This train is going back down to the city."

Okay...so maybe it was really a late train having a problem and the on-time train was coming right behind it.

Then people started talking about an accident further up the tracks. and supposedly a bus was on the way. Oh, great I know what this means.

There was an MTA cop there talking to smeone else...this cop had been there for over an hour, and had been told that three different busses were sent up, and she had yet to see one.

There were a couple of supervisors on the scene...and when I was just about to go back to the office, one said that a bus was sitting down on Beaver Dam road waiting for people and we had to walk down there because they didn't want to bring the bus up to Gilroy. The hell? From the Gilroy stop to the point where they were saying the bus was (Down near the Warren road stop) is at least half a mile. There were elderly folks and someone in a wheelchair waiting up here. And the hill on Beaver Dam road is not a pretty one. And they want people to walk to a waiting bus?

So I was about to turn and go back to the office when the supervisor says she's got the bus coming up to take people north. A few mintues later it shows up. And people try to get on, but suddeny they need to turn it around, so they do that in the wholesale club parking lot across the street, and people start getting on, the bus is marked for Lutherville (I was on at this point, but when I asked where it was going, the supervisor outside looked at me like I was particularly stupid and said that it was going south (Nevermind that she had just said it was heading north). So I got off the bus. They wanted us to go down to Lutherville and catch another bus north. I don't have time for this, I'm on my lunchbreak. She starts yelling at me to get back on the bus. I tell her I can't do that, if I can't go directly north, I don't have time to deal with their runaround and contradictions. She orders me again to get back on the bus and go to Lutherville, so I just flat-out said "Lady I don't know what your problem is, but you can't tell a straight story and I don't have the time, I'm going back to my office."

I hope that no one was hurt in the accident. I hope to hell it's cleared up by the time I get off work and by gods, I hope the MTA gets its head out of it's ass (I know, that last one is a great big pipe dream.)

Additionally, I hope I get an early out today so I can do what I need to do in reasonable time.