THe MBTA, which this morning told an Orange Line rider he wound up at the Encore casino because he got on a casino shuttle and not an Orange Line bus, is now acknowledging that he got on the right bus and that the driver somehow missed the shuttle route between Sullivan and Wellington and wound up at the casino:

Last night, there was an incident involving a third-party Orange Line shuttle taking its riders to the wrong destination. We take this matter very seriously and are investigating what happened to identify the underlying issues so that we and the vendor can improve. — MBTA (@MBTA) November 9, 2019

Tim Lawrence reported the unexpected trip to gamblingville around 10 p.m. yesterday. He and other passengers were forced onto buses for the last of six weeks of Orange Line repair work.

This morning, the T at first replied to Lawrence that the fault was his, because he got on a Greyhound bus meant to get people to Encore, not a proper Orange Line shuttle:

Tim, to follow up, we understand that the Greyhound bus pictured was not part of the Orange Line shuttling. Shuttle supervisors were notified at the time of your message. We apologize for the confusion with the charter buses. — MBTA (@MBTA) November 9, 2019

Lawrence replied:

Wait what? Are you saying that bus was not a shuttle but picked us all up as a shuttle? We were standing in the aisle. Everyone on that bus thought they were going to Sullivan. I boarded at the North Sta stop. — Tim Lawrence (@datadyne007) November 9, 2019 The driver had the MBTA instructions (he was trying to read while driving) and there was a sign on the windshield. How are you telling me this was not an OL shuttle? — Tim Lawrence (@datadyne007) November 9, 2019

This morning, though, the T said it will try to keep it from happening again, the next time it needs to run buses instead of trains:

We will learn from last night and review our disruption planning procedures to ensure riders are safe, informed and brought to their destinations in a timely manner during this and future planned shutdown work. — MBTA (@MBTA) November 9, 2019

But, oops: