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According to the Chronicle, while trying to catch a train at the Embarcadero station Tuesday night at around 6 p.m., a man got his hand trapped in the door of an L-line and was dragged along the platform. As he was seconds away from a fatal encounter with the approaching wall, a passenger inside the car pulled the little red emergency release par and the car stopped.
The man being dragged was fine. The driver of said L-line, of course, was pissed, "yelling, 'Who pulled the release bar?'"
Muni spokeswoman Maggie Lynch says that streetcar doors aren't designed like the doors on an elevator, "where you put your hand in and it opens." But that's what we've always seen, followed by everyone favorite sound in the world: the Muni shriek.
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MUNI: the next best thing to riding in the back of a chicken truck.
Kudos to the person who stopped the train. That's what you call heroics!
All true, except that it happened at Montgomery station, not Embarcadero. Unless it happened twice Tuesday evening.
Jesus. This happened to me on the street the other day (SRN 101413).
Mizz Maggie is wrong.
The operator SHOULD not move until all the doors are closed there are two indicator lights (there's one "doors closed" indicator in the dash, one in the circuit breaker panel), or the dumbfuck could just look in the side view mirrors to check.
This assumes that the train was being operated manually. If it was indeed being operated automatically, that's a fantastic lawsuit waiting to happen.
Someone please fire Maggie Lynch. She's pissed off the public for too long.
Example: KPIX did a story about leaking water pipes next to a metro line caused by stray electricity corroding the pipes. Lynch replied that it was not muni's fault, yet the reporter showed documentation that Lynch's office acknowledged that the 3rd street rail project was causing the same problems to the pipes. Then Lynch walks off the interview... great work Maggie, time for a new job.
LRV doors *are* like elevator doors. They have 'sensitive edges' and are supposed to re-open if they are blocked. And operators are supposed to check their mirrors before they move. Obviously that didn't happen here....
Wow... someone needs to check that out. In New York, the subway opens really easy.
*quickly adding that to my list of public transportation fears*
A few years ago I was riding the L, out near the end of the line (fog zone, outer Sunset) and the DRIVER, aka Train Operator, not only got HER hand stuck in the door, but the doors broke the bones in her hand. A quick thinking passenger (not me) pulled the emergency release for the doors and she was able to free her mangled hand. It was squished something ugly -- we had to call 911 for help for her. The thing of it was... the doors were not closing completely and the train would not move. So, our train operator thought that she'd assist the doors closed and SMUSH went her hand. Woe is MUNI.
One of those strange occurances that frightens me even more than the stories of people being run over/killed by a train.
[shudder]
Ignorance knows no bounds