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Thanx for the sarcasm!
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reddit!I know how the facts can ruin a good T-bashing story, but I thought I'd write anyway. In his guest column, "comedian" Baratunde Thurston claims that the operator of a Red Line train, stopped on the Longfellow Bridge, refused to put on the air conditioning ("Escape from the T," 10.24.07). Wrong.
The operator could not have turned on the air conditioning even if she had wanted to. Once the fire department ordered electricity to the third rail shut off, that meant no power for the subway trains too. And you can't operate an air conditioning system without power.
His misrepresentation of this basic fact casts serious doubts over the rest of the claims in his column. But hey, why ruin a good story, right?
JOE PESATURO
MBTA SPOKESMAN
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