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Literalman wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 4:12 pm I've been reading through my old issues of Passenger Train Journal and found an interesting series of comments about the Night Owl:

LSL and Empire Builder split in Albany and Spokane respectively.

The south of NY crews are the fricking worst on this route. Absolutely no respect for passengers trying to sleep. Even when they had a sleeper they’d still blast announcements on the PA. I’ve filed many complaints.

Two of the top 10 Amtrak stations in the country in terms of ridership are in the city of Boston and this guy continues to act like the only reason they get service is because of politics. Ok.

Thank you for correcting that foolishness

I have yet to make a trip to North Station since this has been implemented but I have wondered one thing. How does this work for T employees and Amtrak Employees? As a Amtrak employee, I can ride the CR and most Amtrak trains for free. All I have to do is show my badge, no ticket needed. Can the ne...

That makes sense given that every arriving passenger should already have a ticket.

It’s depressing that people weren’t getting upset over an incredibly minor inconvenience? I’d say it’s reassuring that these people had some perspective and unlike you realized that it’s not a huge deal.

Again, the fare gates are tied into the fire alarm system and automatically open when the alarm goes off. They’re also built so that they require power to stay closed. In the event of a loss of power they automatically pop open.

Man I guess WMATA, BART, MARTA, TfL, et al are just pure evil then.

You don’t seem this passionate about this issue in the subway.

In an emergency they would all open if the fire alarm goes off and the emergency services (I was an EMT in Boston till 2018 and learned about these) have access to a switch that pops them all open.

And wouldn’t you know it, SEC has faregates…

Red Wing wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:38 pm Would someone please explain to me the problem of the fare gates. Basically the issue I see is this is something new it makes me mad, keep things the way they were.

I’m fairly certain they’ll accept CharlieCards in order to be somewhat futureproof.

FTA needs to come in and take over. WMATA is a total joke.