by MBTA3247
BandA wrote:Single level cars are much faster boarding & getting off, and don't have the ADA problems. High level platforms were designed for and work better with single-level coaches - if they knew they were going to bi-levels it would have been a lot easier to stay with low platforms.Back when the first high level platforms were being built in the US, they didn’t even know they would be going to steel carbodies, much less that they would eventually transition to bilevel equipment.
"The destination of this train is [BEEP BEEP]" -announcement on an Ashmont train.