by inthebag
The east door of the 8th car probably has a gap that is larger than whatever they deem safe.
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onorclose7 wrote:The gap on the eastern most car has a big gap on track one. The curve is the opposite way on track two therefore there is no gap. If you are in such a hurry to depart the train, why don't you get on in the front?"Crowding" up front is a reason why so many got hurt when the train hit the bumper at Atlantic Terminal a couple of months ago. I have a number of thoughts on this.
LIRR: New path to Atlantic Terminal may ease commuter delays
Beginning Wednesday, LIRR trains will use a west portal to directly access the Vanderbilt Yard rail storage site in Brooklyn.
A direct new pathway for Long Island Rail Road trains traveling from Atlantic Terminal to an adjacent rail yard will reduce delays for tens of thousands of Brooklyn commuters, LIRR officials said Wednesday.
The completion of what’s being called the “West Portal” is the latest milestone in the privately funded, half-billion-dollar transformation of the LIRR’s Vanderbilt Yard in the shadow of the Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn.
For more than a century, routing a train from Atlantic Terminal into the yard, where it would be cleaned and serviced, required a complicated and time-consuming set of movements. Trains would have to travel east from the station about three-quarters of a mile, and then back west again through the only portal leading to the adjacent outdoor rail yard.
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The new access point is among more than $500 million in upgrades promised to the LIRR by private builder Greenland Forest City Partners as a condition of an agreement to allow the Barclays Center to be built partially on top of the original Vanderbilt Yard.
In addition to relocating the yard’s storage tracks, Greenland Forest City Partners is installing new signal and switches, new sewage connections for servicing train bathrooms, a new electrical substation and an employee facility. The improvements are expected to be completed next year.
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