Metro Opens Doors

[vvill]

When I first rode a train to school in what is the equivalent of middle school in the US, many of the trains had manual doors. Passengers could open and close the doors as they wished. It was common for kids to ride with the doors wide open – for the fun, thrill, and cool factor. I was one of them. Often the trains/doors were so old that one of them would open from inertia every time the train started/stopped anyway. These were trains that were built in 1926-1960 according to wikipedia.

Anyway. That’s just an anecdote. It’s 2012 now… metro is teh suck.

[MCL1981]

The commuter rail I rode in CT before moving here was like that too. Accelerate and the doors would slide open. Slow down and the doors would slam closed. But that’s not the same. A lot of big common carrier commuter trains are like that still. Amtrak, MARC, VRE, etc. The doors are in vestibules, not the passenger standing area. They are also not making sharp turns are high speed causing standees to flop all over the train. But on trains where the entire car is regularly packed like sardines with people standing in the doorways, that can’t be the case. A door opening en-route on a MARC train is nothing. A door opening en-route on a Metro train is a catastrophic safety system failure.

[Tim Kelley]

I’ve ridden an elevated light rail commuter train in Jakarta that didn’t even HAVE doors.

[dbb]

Best I can claim is an elevator with no doors in Frankfurt Germany called a paternoster. No doors and no stops, just kept running

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster

[pfunkallstar]

On the elektrichka in Russia you can either hold it or prop open the door and let loose on the tundra – usually you can get a smoke buddy to prop the door for you thus allowing two hand operation in the 30 mph wind -important.

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