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Re: DVARP petition for SEPTA regional rail bathrooms |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Jul 29 22:36:07 2012, in response to Re: DVARP petition for SEPTA regional rail bathrooms, posted by kp5308 on Sun Jul 29 18:23:15 2012. Sure it is "worth mentioning" because this must be a recent change. Langhorne has one that was built new last year:Langhorne station is not ADA compatible, mini-high or no. But that has more to do with the fact that they *cannot* build a mini-high or high platform with SEPTA trains using the middle track there. People with wheelchairs can ride into the city, but they're SOL if they want to go home. Of course if they were using rolling stock equipped with wheelchair lifts it'd be a relatively simple matter to make a curb-cut in the platform edge and set the passenger down on the area passengers already alight onto so they can roll away. That is not how SEPTA sees it. That doesn't much matter, because they're the ones who blew $1.4 million on a station improvement which doesn't even make the station ADA compatible. According to an employee the plates & their associated hardware are inspected on a regular basis. Of course! We're relying on SEPTA's maintenance forces to drive around and inspect the 200 or so locks throughout the system which are exposed to just about anyone who wants to deface, damage, or otherwise break something while they wait for the train. That's *so* much better than having around 100 wheelchair lifts which are carried into the yard every night for maintenance alongside the rest of an EMU's components. What "regular" means I don't know but I do believe they are not as neglected as you make them out to be. My experiences with wheelchairs on commuter trains mostly revolve around NJT and have invariably involved ludicrously long waits as the bridge plate is retrieved. But that's mostly because in all my travels on SEPTA I've seen a wheelchair passenger on maybe one or two occasions. More than likely this is because the system is so implacably hostile to anyone who cannot ascend from their top of rail level platforms and accompanying 1950s-style rolling stock. |
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