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Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Apr 9 17:58:54 2018, in response to Re: $787K Study Seeks to Find Ways to Encourage Subway Riders to Ride LIRR and MNRR, posted by pragmatist on Mon Apr 9 16:49:52 2018. Especially ADA advocates. Say you have a wheelchair bound passenger that needs a plank to have the wheelchair on board say 6 carlengths from the head end. Now if the engineer is the "crew" he has to leave his cab/engine and assist the passenger, get him/her on, secure the chair then go back to the cab/engine to proceed. Then reverse the procedure when the wheelchair passenger has to get off.This will not work, straight answer. Its unsafe, impractical, and would kill on time performance resulting in a ridership nosedive. You need at least one trainperson on board. The public, politicians, the ADA folks and the unions would not tolerate the missing safety factor that a conductor on board would provide. A conductors job in addition to protecting revenue is to provide transportation in a SAFE and timely manner. Safety first is the fundamental RR mission statement in nutshell. You could give free rides all & every time & if a safety factor isin't maintained, its not worth it. |
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