Day #27 - Sometimes I don't like the trolley...

Sometimes I don't like the trolley...

This morning I needed to get to work a bit earlier than usual for the All Staff Meeting. So I left the house about 10 minutes before 7. There was supposed to be a trolley passing my station at 7:05. Not a problem. I had 15 minutes to carefully walk the four icy blocks to the trolley. When I get there, I remember that I'm going to be stuck riding the same trolley as all the high schoolers... since there is a whole horde of them already waiting. 

They are not the reason I didn't like the trolley this morning.

When I arrive, I notice that there isn't even a trolley at the end of the line (4 stops further than mine) to be waiting for. First sign. So I check twitter. There is a post that says there are issues with outbound trolleys on my route because of a disabled trolley about halfway along the route. Second sign. Okay. Just wait a bit. It's usually pretty quickly cleared. 

So we all just keep waiting. It's getting close to 7:30... normally at this point, the third trolley since 7:00 would be getting ready to go by, but still no trolleys have even made it past us to the end of the line. I call my father an ask him for help connecting to a different route that'll get me into work. When he gets to me at 7:46, I ask him to drop me at the regional rail train station that is close by for the train that should be passing at 7:51. We get there just as the train pulls up so I run and jump on. 

So everything works out and I get to work when I needed to... for $6, when I usually just swipe my bus pass. That being said, just as we're pulling over to the train station, the double trolley that was supposed to leave from the end of the line at 7:01 finally is almost there... it'll only be about an hour and 7 minutes late... it's immediately followed by another double trolley... and probably also the next two rounds of single trolleys. 

As much as I love the trolley usually, there is one thing that really is a disadvantage; if something happens that blocks the route, be it a car poorly parked, a broken down trolley or whatever... it can't detour. It has to follow the tracks. Always.

I never checked, but I would assume the issue with the disabled trolley was weather related. It's not usually good to blend the two pictures below together. It just doesn't end well.

Side note: removing the R# from the Regional Rail Route names was pointless. It makes things confusing. Plus everyone still uses then... even employees.