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Posted by JohnL on Wed Dec 13 17:51:25 2006, in response to Re: LIRR: Another GAP Fall...., posted by RonInBayside on Wed Dec 13 17:39:05 2006. If the person is ambulatory, it may be that a crewmember's support is all that's needed.I have seen that: “frail, little old lady” a lot of times. It’s the wheelchair situation that’s more difficult. I haven’t seen that yet. But it’s likely to get there given that the average weight of the population is increasing (especially in the critical segment, the baby-boomers). But my experience is mostly limited to late nights and early morning weekends. I’m pretty sure that if someone in a motorized wheelchair boarded at NY Penn and discovered en route that the deboarding at Princeton Junction was low platform, then there would be a problem. I wonder what NJ Transit’s policy is in such cases? Paratransit back to the correct station? I write this because I have seen a lady get off the train at New Brunswick Southbound, exit the elevator in a wheelchair, then get into a minivan equipped with a lift and drive away. |
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