It is 4:15 and there are 9 trains scheduled to leave in the next 45 minutes. There are 5 trains sitting in the station and not one has been announced.
The next train leaves in 5 minutes and it clearly has to be one of the trains sitting in the station!
Is there some union rule about not having to be on duty until 10 minutes* before scheduled departure?
I have traveled by commuter rail in San Francisco, DC, and Chicago, and their trains were always on the same track each day, ready for boarding at least 30 minutes ahead of time.
Why do we Bostonians/New Englanders put up with it?!
* 10 minutes is both the posted expected time for announcing before departure and the average time beforehand that the conductors reluctantly take their last drag and pitch their cigarettes into the ashtrays that sit just below "No Smoking" signs before meandering off to their assigned trains
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