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Re: Passenger Accounts Re: Stalled WMATA Green Line Train ''Self-Evacuated'' by Its Passengers

Posted by WillD on Fri Jul 6 12:52:28 2012, in response to Passenger Accounts Re: Stalled WMATA Green Line Train ''Self-Evacuated'' by Its Passengers, posted by The Flxible Neofan on Fri Jul 6 10:06:02 2012.

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Ouch, that conductor train operator is going to have a hell of a meeting in the next few days. If he was instructed to evacuate the passengers then he should have been leading them off the train. Otherwise it's extremely irresponsible to allow passengers into the track area unsupervised. To tell the passengers the third rail is off only compounds the problem because he more than likely does not know between what sectionalizing switches. Even if he was told the third rail was entirely off by the control center it could easily have been an indication error, with the third rail remaining powered to some degree. I don't know of a system which relies upon the indication in the control center to verify third rail power being deactivated. They tell the guys in the field what their indication shows, then the guys in the field verify that the third rail is indeed deenergized.

I hope for the T/O's sake there is either something concrete to refute the passenger's claims, or something in the radio transmission logs to relieve him of some of the culpability for this incident. Unfortunately all the latter outcome does is spread the blame around a bit.

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