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Re: It Could Happen- re: Conductor opened the wrong side |
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Posted by Howard Fein on Fri Mar 23 14:05:03 2007, in response to GBS made this up (Re: Conductor opened the wrong side), posted by Olog-hai on Thu Mar 22 01:44:28 2007. It seems plausible. I've seen this exact same occurrence happen. It's all too easy for a conductor to commit this type of error when in the middle track of a three track line.Some years ago, a weekend GO had express-only service on the Flushing-bound 7. So only the inbound platforms at Junction and 61-Woodside were open, with outbound trains using the middle track. One outbound conductor must've been too accutomed to opening the doors on the right-hand side- i.e. the outbound platform- at Woodside. This left a load of passengers onto a closed platform with taped off stairways. Of course, it was a simple matter to break the tape. While this incident posed no danger, it's still an inconvenience to those trying to board the train. Maybe not as much of an inconvenience as a conductor who this past summer failed to open the doors of an outbound 7 stopped at QBP. But you can't blame people who wait in good faith at the proper location for being angry about a train that failed to open its doors as its supposed to. And at 8:30, headways are a lot longer than during the heart of the rush hour. Maybe someone headed to Flushing had to catch a bus from there. Being denied their scheduled train could cause them to miss their bus connection. And at 8:30, that could have great consequences. |
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