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u/UnderstandingEasy856

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▲ 115 r/Bart+1 crossposts

Fare Gate Enhancements Station Hardening - highlights

Some highlights from the presentation at the 7/9 BART Board Meeting.

  • Fare gates work in conjunction with station hardening. Gates bring results, barriers protect those results
  • Upgraded gearboxes and gussets for Coliseum & Antioch.
  • Platform level ADA gates removed to surface level fortified corridor.
  • Anti-piggybacking sensor and software advances - Faster gate closing speed.

Full document: https://bart.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=8127408&GUID=589191A8-14A7-4525-9E63-0D8A3A2C8EBC&Options=&Search=

u/Sawtelle-MetroRider — 1 month ago
▲ 106 r/caltrain+1 crossposts

Greetings from Lima

Seems like, after a lot of political hubbub over the condition of the gallery cars, that they got at least one set running on their tracks

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u/UnderstandingEasy856 — 3 months ago
▲ 25 r/transit

Documentary Shows on Metro Construction

Just want to make a couple of recommendations for two quite in-depth documentaries about modern metro construction.

Unlike a lot of PBS Nova type shows with just a superficial take on topical issues - these are entire seasons of 50 minute episodes, and touch on some intricate and fascinating details of civil engineering, particularly for a mass market documentary.

Crossrail - https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DBZCDNVT

Sydney Metro - https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0D99Q988H

They're available on Amazon Prime (in the US, and perhaps other regions). I know at least the Crossrail one can be found as scattered videos on Youtube, under the alternate title "15 Billion Pound Railway".

Highly recommended.

u/UnderstandingEasy856 — 3 months ago
▲ 20 r/OaklandCA

They recently introduced a phone based check in system and it’s a mess. Lots of elderly people confused how the process works. This old guy next to me was pleading with his phone AI that the “square thing” isn’t working and getting nonsense platitudes “Ah that’s a QR code! They’re typically used to encode URLs blah blah blah”

The “info” desk was unstaffed and the security guard completely indifferent. I personally helped out a couple of folks but could overhear half dozen more poor souls in multiple languages muttering to themselves aloud about how to get a number, wandering around lost. The more desperate ones jumped into the driving test line to ask for help and the response was repeated gesticulation to scan the poster board and further confusion, taking up more employee time.

Whatever happened to the check in line with the machine that spits out a slip with the number? Evidently you cannot join the line without a smartphone now. The wait times are unchanged from before - 90 mins for me. Sometimes more technology for technology’s sake is not the answer.

PS: repost after being booted from r/bayarea for being off topic

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u/UnderstandingEasy856 — 4 months ago
▲ 5 r/bayarea

They recently introduced a phone based check in system and it’s a mess. Lots of elderly people confused how the process works. This poor old guy next to me was pleading with his phone AI that the “square thing” isn’t working and getting nonsense platitudes “Ah that’s a QR code! They’re typically used to encode URLs blah blah blah”

The “info” desk is unstaffed and the security guard completely indifferent. I personally helped out a couple of folks but could overhear half dozen more poor souls in multiple languages muttering to themselves aloud how to get a number, wandering around lost. The more desperate ones jump into the driving test line to ask for help and the response is repeated gesticulation to scan the poster board and further confusion, taking up way more employee time.

Whatever happened to the check in line with the machine that spits out a slip with the number? The wait times are unchanged - 90 mins for me. Sometimes more technology for technology’s sake is not the answer.

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u/UnderstandingEasy856 — 4 months ago