Oren, Jerry,
I am clueless as to what they are or what function they may perform.
I reviewed a couple of the video clips at youtube.com, they don’t appear at the same location on the various series of cars.
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I am clueless as to what they are or what function they may perform.Are they always at the center door? If so could it be an audio warning device for the visually impaired?
I reviewed a couple of the video clips at youtube.com, they don’t appear at the same location on the various series of cars.
polybalt wrote:They are above the center door on some cars, but on all doors on other cars.I am clueless as to what they are or what function they may perform.Are they always at the center door? If so could it be an audio warning device for the visually impaired?
I reviewed a couple of the video clips at youtube.com, they don’t appear at the same location on the various series of cars.
ADA requires physical barriers between rapid transit cars, like the pantograph gate arrangements in New York. This is to protect individuals who mistake the gap between cars as a doorway and fall through to the tracks.
I know Baltimore was able to opt out of that requirement in the early '80s by putting "beepers" above the center door. The idea being that the blind person would head for the closest beeper and would never pass a intercar gap before reaching a door.
Pete Schmidt
hardyboyz1999 wrote:How do you know that cars 3288/89 are the newest 3000-series cars and what month of what year did they enter service?The general assumption is the cars are made and delivered in numerical order, though it isn't always the case, so it can be assumed that 3288/3289 were the last 3000 Series Breda cars produced. An example of an exception would be that 1001 was the first WMATA car on the property, not 1000. The Rehabs were not done in numerical order, but the 2000s were done before the 3000s. 3290 and 3291 were assigned to the survivors of the Shady Grove 1996 collision, and since their original numbers were lower than 3288, it can be assumed they came first. According to The Story of Metro, the last of the 3000 Series cars was delivered in June 1988.