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patgundSeems like the north of us is having their own share of transit problems....
SkyTrain runs with doors open
"SkyTrain passengers had a wild ride Saturday when their train left New Westminster station with its doors still open.
Alarmed passengers huddled away from three sets of open doors, through which cars could be seen below on Stewardson Way as the train sped to 22nd Street station.
One passenger posted a camera phone video on YouTube and others described the incident as "crazy" and "horrifying."
TransLink officials say security video shows one set of doors were forced open by a passenger at the platform.
That would normally have triggered an alarm and prevented the train from leaving.
But spokesman Ken Hardie said technicians were also working on doors at the far end of the four-car train and had disabled the alarm. Neither they nor the operator who was manually driving the train realized there were open doors when it pulled away.
"Under ordinary conditions a train won't move if the automated system detects a door open," Hardie said, who added there will be a safety review to try to determine exactly what happened and how to prevent it recurring.
"This is literally a one-in-a-million occurrence," he said. "But we don't want it to happen again."
Some of the doors that weren't forced open may have frozen open, he said."
SkyTrain runs with doors open
"SkyTrain passengers had a wild ride Saturday when their train left New Westminster station with its doors still open.
Alarmed passengers huddled away from three sets of open doors, through which cars could be seen below on Stewardson Way as the train sped to 22nd Street station.
One passenger posted a camera phone video on YouTube and others described the incident as "crazy" and "horrifying."
TransLink officials say security video shows one set of doors were forced open by a passenger at the platform.
That would normally have triggered an alarm and prevented the train from leaving.
But spokesman Ken Hardie said technicians were also working on doors at the far end of the four-car train and had disabled the alarm. Neither they nor the operator who was manually driving the train realized there were open doors when it pulled away.
"Under ordinary conditions a train won't move if the automated system detects a door open," Hardie said, who added there will be a safety review to try to determine exactly what happened and how to prevent it recurring.
"This is literally a one-in-a-million occurrence," he said. "But we don't want it to happen again."
Some of the doors that weren't forced open may have frozen open, he said."
