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Red Line rider gets hand stuck in door; commute suddenly becomes a chore
By adamg on Fri, 09/23/2016 - 6:35pm
Somebody got his hand stuck in a Red Line door at Central, somebody else pulled the emergency cord and, boom, instant delays that led to people piling up at stations up and down the line as T workers set about opening the door and re-setting the brake, or whatever it is they do after somebody pulls that cord. At least we know it works.
RedHeadedGirl reports the guy was in the train:
A couple of guys were able to pry the rubber part of the door enough to get him free once we were stopped.
He was real mad it didn't open back up.
Hong Pong and D report they sat inside the train, the doors shut, for 10 minutes.
The T is reporting "moderate" residual delays.
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Door holding
#Protip: In most circumstances, don't. (An exception below.)
But if you do, hold the door before it starts to close, i.e. if you're waiting for a friend to get their Charlie Ticket to read. (Of course, friends don't let friends ride with Charlie Tickets.) If you're running for a train, kick a leg through and bring it back. That should cause the sensor to reopen it at which point you can go through. Don't grab it, don't force it, that's a good way to mess up the mechanism. If you miss the train, you miss the train. It's better than causing a 10 minute delay.
Exception for holding a train (this happened): When a Bruins or Celtics game lets out and people are flooding in to North Station but the lines are long because it's a bunch of tourists and suburbanites who don't have Charlie Cards so the machines get backed up. (#ProTip: go to Haymarket.) There's an Orange Line train in the station half-full and the operator is trying to close the doors even though the screen says there's not another train for 12 minutes by which point the platform will be so full that not everyone will get on. Help the operator out by blocking a door for 2-3 minutes until the train is full, then the next train will have enough room for everyone. Of course, the operator should do this anyway, but good luck with that.
Or say "eff them, I'm going to the Red Line" and take the Green Line.
i.e. if you're waiting for a
Or how about waiting on the platform for your friend instead of inconveniencing everyone else on the train.
People are so stupid when it
People are so stupid when it comes to the trains and busses. People stand in doorway when train doors are closing or the idiot that realizes at the last second that they need to get off. How about people take their faces out of their phones and pay attention. It's not worth it to hurt oneself just to wait a couple minutes for another train I take the T everyday, you need to allow time
I had the #9 bus close on my
I had the #9 bus close on my arm as I exited once. I was standing on the sidewalk with my arm still holding the railing inside the bus.
The #9 is so overpacked it takes forever to squirm through the crowd and get to the door. It's so overpacked, presumably, the driver can't see a 5'4" broad trying to weasel her way through a crowd of men packed like sardines.
We were all screaming at the driver to open the door. Alas, the good men of Southie saved my life that day.
To most of the comments above
Yes, while people holding doors and not paying attention are often a problem, I've also lost count of how many times I've seen doors close on people who are just getting on or off a train normally. Especially on the Green Line for whatever reason. I've also seen countless situations where someone tries to catch a train where the doors are still open, but they shut before they can get there and the train then pulls away as the person is still on the yellow strip, which is 100% on the driver.
Regardless, if it's possible for a hand (or an arm, bag, leg, umbrella) etc. to be caught in the doors, this is a problem.