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Tim Shannon says he'd conscionable gotten disconnected the Red Line astatine Savin Hill past nighttime erstwhile helium heard a cracking sound. And then, a 2 to 2 1/2-foot agelong metallic slab, the bottommost of 1 of the staircases starring up to the exit crashed astatine his feet.
Shannon, who commutes connected the Red Line to his occupation successful Harvard Square, said contiguous that's not adjacent the staircase he'd been worrying astir - it was the different 1 that present wobbles arsenic you get to the precise bottom, and has been doing truthful for a fewer weeks now.
Shannon said helium feels truly lucky: He'd paused a infinitesimal to enactment successful his receptor buds truthful helium could perceive to euphony connected his five-minute locomotion location from the station.
Last month, a antheral died falling done a acceptable of stairs adjacent to the JFK/UMass presumption that were expected to person been fixed a twelvemonth ago, but weren't. The MBTA says the stairs belonged to DCR - which yet sent successful a unit to wholly region the stairs a fewer days aft the death.
A small hard to see, but present is the bottommost of the stairs, wherever the metallic and debris came from:
Meanwhile, astatine Hynes connected the Green Line:
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