I was riding the 1 train over the weekend and when it arrives at south ferry(its southern terminal) it has a frustrating 10 second pause before the doors open. Normally I would not mind, but I was in a rush to catch the SI ferry. Why does this long pause occur?
hi55us wrote:I was riding the 1 train over the weekend and when it arrives at south ferry(its southern terminal) it has a frustrating 10 second pause before the doors open. Normally I would not mind, but I was in a rush to catch the SI ferry. Why does this long pause occur?At terminal stations, the arriving conductors are required to set up the train fro the next trip out in the opposite direction. That means that the conductors position shifts from the 6th car to the 5th car (which would be the 6th car going in the opposite direction). Because of the way the door controls are set up and operating procedures, this should only be done when the train is in the station and the doors closed.
The 10 seconds is the time it takes for the conductor to go from one cab to the other and initialize the door controls (and then open the window and point to the stopping board as required by procedure)