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This story might be one of our worst subway nightmares. Over the weekend, an A train left the station with some doors OPEN. The Daily News reports that train didn't stop until it was at the next station. The Transit Authority's Paul Fleuranges gave this statement:
"This incident should NOT have happened. If it happened as you describe it ... then there were some very serious violations of our operating rules and procedures. We are all relieved there were no injuries to our customers or crew."What's spooky is that apparently a conductor left his cab to check to see why the doors wouldn't close - but the train took off anyway because the motorman's control panel showed that the doors were closed! This could be a lesson to all you straphangers who lean on the subway doors (better to hold onto a bar) and who block the doors (move all the way in).The train was taken to a TA yard for a battery of tests, and the crew was taken off the rails, Fleuranges said. Both the motorman and conductor were given drug and alcohol tests, a standard investigatory move.
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wow, this is scary. i was on an N train this morning out of astoria whose door between cars wouldn't stay latched shut. every time we rounded a turn it swung partway open. i was freaked out, but nobody else even seemed halfway fazed, including the woman who was propped up against the conductor's cab right next to the sometimes-open door doing a su doku puzzle while we were flying underneath the east river. i didn't think the train was supposed to be able to operate when any doors were open. what gives?
you know people used to be allowed to walk between cars and even stand between them? don't see what the big deal is about one of the doors being open a little
The doors between cars can be open and have the train move, on some trains, such as the E those doors are not locked. The doors that open to the platform are the ones that supposedly have to be closed for the train to be able to move.
Darn! That had to be so cool, if very noisy. I wouldn't have minded being on that ride; just stand back (plenty of room, it was the weekend) and watch as someone was bound to freak out. Would have been even cooler if it had happened on the elevated portion of the line.
I think they made walking between cars a violation for a reason. If I can't bring coffee on the train anymore without risking a fine, the least they could do in return is make sure people don't get thrown from the car under the river.
I was recently on a Q train that pulled about 10 feet too far past an elevated platform, so that the first subway door on the first car opened into empty air (about a six-foot drop, and I think onto ground pretty close to the third rail). The girl who stuck one foot out the door before realizing the mistake seemed pretty shaken up, but I think the rest of us just thought it looked cool.
Where've you been, Rebecca? The in-between doors on a lot of trains slide open all the time. I see it at least a few times a year.
Back in the day some conductors would start moving the train before shutting the doors intentionally...I believe the conductor would say, "Step lively, people"...you'd be amazed how quickly it got people's butt in the door for it to close.
Sometimes I just wish we'd adopt Tokyo's style and have those guys push us all the way in:
http://www.travelistic.com/video/show/303
No more waiting for those people holding the damn door!
I was once on G train that had door problems- it was stopped at 21st/Van Eyck and they told everyone to get off and wait for the next train. About half the people were off the train (only 1/2 of each door was open) and all of a sudden the train starts moving. Everyone yelled and freaked out and luckily thye only moved about 15' forward before they heard us and stopped. Everyone else got off and were pretty shooken up/pissed off. Apparently one Train operator misheard the other when she said there were still people unloading.
reminds me of the movie money train the doors were jail cell style doors and uoi can open and close them while the train is moving, really dangerous