Head-end View wrote:Hold on! The Long Island Railroad which is a somewhat rapid-transit like operation in its extensive electric territory runs trains of 6, 8, 10, and 12 car lengths. Every station platform has clearly visible orange/blue car markers showing the engineers exactly where to stop their trains based on the size of the consist. If LIRR can routinely operate this way, then why can't WMATA do the same? It's not friggin' rocket science!
This is WMATA we're talking about. The LIRR to WMATA *IS* rocket science!
That said, if you had the money to put those markers there, yeah, sure... but you still had the human element in and humans make mistakes. It was simpler (and well advocated by Greater Greater Washington) to have them all pull up. Yeah, you're walking, but you got those signs saying you got a short consist. Get up front. Didn't they slap signs on the floors saying "6 car consist ends here." and such?
The simpler approach would be to get ATO working again (ha!) and have the computers stop in the middle. If it's a human driving, it's going all the way up.