Am I Supposed To Stand On The Track?
I was riding to SFO last Friday and for what may be the first time since I started riding BART about five years ago, I read the "in case of emergency" poster located next to the doors at the ends of each car.
The part telling you what to do in case of evacuation says to step across the median (slightly different instructions for the Tube, regular tunnels and elevated tracks) and wait for a rescue train. But has anyone ever noticed that in the pictures, the little BART passengers are standing ON THE TRACKS waiting for the rescue train?
Surely that can't be the intent . . . Anyone know?
Don't worry, if there's a
Don't worry, if there's a train evacuation, the "rescue" train arriving on the opposite track will be operating under manual conditions - i.e. crawling at a very low speed.
Yes, but if the rescue train
Yes, but if the rescue train is coming in on that track, then that means the third rail is still powered, and so getting a crowded train of people huddled next to it would seem a recipe for disaster. Like a Donner party BBQ or something.
this never made sense to me
this never made sense to me either, but for different reasons. say 500 people empty out of a rush hour train on to the adjacent track. then the train stops right in front of the people. now what? how do you get 500 people from the tracks onto the train. walk single file between the two trains? hope you packed a lunch. and dinner. and a tent.
wouldn't it be better to stay on the train, have the rescue train line up next to it, then use the emergency planks to transfer the people from one train to the other? obviously this wouldn't work if the train was on fire, but standing next to the train in the event of a fire wouldn't work either...
I was think about that
I was think about that actually. I guess the rescue train would have two operators, one in both ends of the car. The operator in the cab car facing the passengers would open the door in the front of the cab car, put down a ladder or stairs of some kind and have the passengers walk through the cab on that end of the train. The train would then proceed in the opposite direction.
I've wondered about that too,
I've wondered about that too, since I've never stood inside the tunnel. Is there a ledge that runs along the side that's wide enough to stand on, or is there just a door?
there is a ledge for
there is a ledge for standing/walking in the tunnel. there is an old george lucas movie that shows the tunnels before they were finished and you can see the ledges in it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138#Production
found a
found a photo:
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2004/04/17/ba_bart072kk.jpg