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Posted by WillD on Fri May 9 02:27:53 2008, in response to Re: PHOTOS: South Shore and Metra Electric Monday, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Fri May 9 01:10:30 2008. Still, high level platforms just seem the better idea.There is little or no difference between a level boarding low floor car and a high floor boarding car today. A level boarding low floor car is far more forgiving of unimproved station platforms than a high floor car with traps for low platform access ever could be. With a level boarding low floor car you can build up the platform to maybe a foot above the railhead to create a stepless entrance indistinguishable from a high platform. At stations which do not justify that expenditure the passengers only have to take two short steps up from the platform, as opposed to the 3 steep steps many Northeast commuters encounter when boarding from low platforms. Given the vast number of stops to be converted it is likely better for Metra to go with a solution that minimizes the impact on those many small originating stations. According to their website Metra serves 230 stations, of which 49 stations, the Metra Electric stops, are equipped with high platforms. It would be far more cost effective in the long run to convert those high platform stops to low platforms and go with a level boarding low floor fleet to serve them than to try to convert the other 181 stations to high platforms. The service would not change, it'd just be easier to integrate operations eventually. |
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