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Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR

Posted by lirr42 on Mon Apr 9 19:01:19 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Apr 9 17:58:54 2018.

Especially ADA advocates. Say you have a wheelchair bound passenger that needs a plank to have the wheelchair on board say 6 carlengths from the head end. Now if the engineer is the "crew" he has to leave his cab/engine and assist the passenger, get him/her on, secure the chair then go back to the cab/engine to proceed. Then reverse the procedure when the wheelchair passenger has to get off.
This will not work, straight answer. Its unsafe, impractical, and would kill on time performance resulting in a ridership nosedive.
You need at least one trainperson on board. The public, politicians, the ADA folks and the unions would not tolerate the missing safety factor that a conductor on board would provide. A conductors job in addition to protecting revenue is to provide transportation in a SAFE and timely manner.
Safety first is the fundamental RR mission statement in nutshell.
You could give free rides all & every time & if a safety factor isin't maintained, its not worth it.

First and foremost--the ADA requires everyone to be treated equally regardless of ability. It further stipulates clear requirements for level boarding, which are almost universally ignored by railroads.

Under the ADA, passengers in wheelchairs must be able to board as any other passenger... Able-bodied riders can board trains through any door unassisted, so under the law riders in wheelchairs must be able to board unassisted as well.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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