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Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.

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 #1502519  by Sand Box John
 
It should be noted the automatic train protection subsystem that prevented wrong side or off platform door openings, be it automatically or manually, was also disabled because of a reliability issues. Many of the wrong side or off platform door openings that have occurred during the period time manual door opening has been done would likely have never happened had this subsystem not been disabled because the subsystem was not malfunctioning 100 percent of the time.
 #1502579  by davinp
 
Currently, operators delay opening the door 5 seconds to make sure the doors open on the right side.
Also, you may have noticed that on the 7000 series, they have a longer delay opening the doors, while the cars check to make sure everything is working properly.
Metro hopes to have the automatic door system running by the end of the year

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