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Originally Posted by Barnes
Once again, the C-Trains where completly ****ed up again at evening rush hour. .
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There's a reason why this happened AGAIN. These type of things will probably happen again too. A few days when it started to snow during the start of rush hour there was some girl with her MP3 player on and walking near 61 Ave S.E. near where the C-train runs to Chinook station. She didn't see the train and didn't
HEAR the ding ding ding sound of the crossing arms and got hit. The C-train travels at speeds up to 80 KM/h and given the weight of the train itself and all its passengers onboard it would need significant distance to stop. It is a little like jumping in front of a tractor-trailer travelling at high speed with a good sized load and hoping to walk away from it. So after she was hit, the C-train driver had to stop and wait for Transit to investigate as well as emergency personnel to show up on scene do their thing. It took 5 hours to get it all cleared up. I would bet that something similar happened today.
The biggest problem is that the system works on the principle that where there is one train another cannot enter. With 5 minute service that means in effect that if 1 train is stopped for any reason it screws up the schedule of the entire system. Even if they have trains turn around at a partictular station they will never get back on schedule during that particular rush hour. The worst is downtown on 7 Ave when some idiot either jaywalks or a car runs a light and gets hit. Then all the trains: NE,NW, and South are going to be late. So think long and hard before you press the Red 'Help' Button on the train because the driver actually has to come out and check it out himself and if needed will ask for and wait for Police,EMS or whoever to show up and the train will not move until the problem is solved. Neither will any other trains move on that line and in the case of downtown: none of them will move.