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[kseda]

Overheard on New Jersey Transit

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[alto2]

I love the conductors on NJT trains when they get snarky/funny. Back in December, one was clearly irritated with people logjamming themselves at the front of the train and said, "Walk back for seats! The back is the opposite direction from the one the train is moving in!"

I take it there's quite a large gap at Secaucus? Wonder why they didn't design it better...

[brewsternorth]

I speculate, but have there been any significant changes to the wheelbase of NJT railroad cars since the platform was built? I know that sort of issue has hamstrung the NYC subway (the IRT lines in particular, since they're the oldest) and meant they've had to engineer extensions to the platform where they know the exits of the longer cars are just too far from the platform edge.

[alto2]

I'd say that was a possibility if the Secaucus station was old. But it's the newest one on the NE Corridor line (and probably every other line)--even newer than the Newark Airport station. So really, they should have been able to build the thing to spec.

[kseda]

Once, on a very crowded train out of Hoboken, a lady conductor declared "There's two of us and seven hundred of you, please follow train crew instructions."

It's not that drastic, really, maybe eight inches since the station's very new. *glance* Yep, opened in 2003. Probably some idiot took a dive recently and they're stepping up awareness.

[brewsternorth]

Well, I know there've been all those horror stories about people on the LIRR falling through the gaps, so maybe that's it.