The MBTA finally opened the Wellington Skywalk. Sounds cool? Nah. It's just a pedestrian bridge over the train yard so folks can get from the station to the parking garage without having to wait for a bus or walk along a busy highway. The Skywalk replaces the old tram. The tram was designed to carry far fewer people than would ever need to use it during rush hour. It was also designed to stop working in windy, cold, or wet weather. It wasn't particularly popular with commuters.
Last year they junked the tram and began building a walkway along the old supports. I used it yesterday for the first time. It looks pretty good and it does the job, but it sounds nasty. The floor is made up of lots of little metal plates that rattled and banged as I walked. Wellington isn't all that busy on weekends so I pretty much had the place to myself, but I wondered how noisy it would be with a full crowd. Maybe not the best design, but it is in the best tradition of T construction.
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