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Posted by WillD on Sun Nov 5 15:30:59 2006, in response to Re: LIRR: Another GAP Fall...., posted by RonInBayside on Sun Nov 5 13:07:59 2006. If they'd ordered the C3s with a three door arrangment with two doors in their current location on the middle level and another door placed in the middle of the lower level then the LIRR would have had level boarding at both high and low platforms. Admittedly ADA compatibility for passengers boarding at a low plat and heading to a high platform station would be difficult, but Metra has not encountered any severe problems with their lift equipped Gallery cars. It would have been child's play to place a lift under one of the high level doors and have wheelchairs accomodated in there. That way they would have achieved 100% ADA compatibility without the need for an expensive and, as we're now learning, dangerous high platforming which the C3s required.Course one of the big advantages of electrifying with OHLE is that the platform placement need not be a balance between keeping the fool off the third rail and keeping that same fool from falling into the inevitable gap between the platform and car. So long as the system is new and doesn't have inconsistencies such as the '[non] Standard Railroad of the World' created on the Long Island Railroad a low platform + 25kv OHLE is by far the correct choice. |
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