RTFM
As my fellow Torontonians are no doubt aware, there are new trains in service in our subway system. There are currently only two of them, and they are currently only running north/south, but as someone who works downtown, I manage to catch a ride on one every now and again.
This morning was just such an instance, but as I got on, a woman standing on the train dropped to thr ground in a dead faint. Various alarm strips were pushed, a passenger identified himself as a doctor and helped the woman until Official Help could arrive. Determining that she had simply fainted, she was escorted off the train by paramedics so that we could continue on our way... at which point we discovered a problem with our shiny new trains:
Nobody knew how to reset them after the alarms have been triggered.
Various technicians came and went, opening panels with keys and then using other keys to activate/deactivate items within the panels, and having sotto voce conversations that went like "Mumble mumble mumble I AM resetting it but the fucking thing mumble mumble mumble."
After a full ten minutes of the subway going nowhere, we were kicked off the train so they could get it out of the way and allow the other, less fancy and new trains continue trundling along.
I'm hoping someone somewhere is reading an Owner's Manual right now and highlighting bits for their next briefing.
P.S. - I discovered a new feature on the new trains. The transit maps above the doorway update themselves. When our train plotzed, our subway station on the map (St. George) lit up in red, and all the other affected stations (every south of us and continuing north to Finch) were also illuminated red, and every station north of us was green. Kind of like the traffic indicators on Google Maps. Eventually I should be able to walk on to a train, glance at the map, and instantly see where any trouble spots along my route might be. Cool!
This morning was just such an instance, but as I got on, a woman standing on the train dropped to thr ground in a dead faint. Various alarm strips were pushed, a passenger identified himself as a doctor and helped the woman until Official Help could arrive. Determining that she had simply fainted, she was escorted off the train by paramedics so that we could continue on our way... at which point we discovered a problem with our shiny new trains:
Nobody knew how to reset them after the alarms have been triggered.
Various technicians came and went, opening panels with keys and then using other keys to activate/deactivate items within the panels, and having sotto voce conversations that went like "Mumble mumble mumble I AM resetting it but the fucking thing mumble mumble mumble."
After a full ten minutes of the subway going nowhere, we were kicked off the train so they could get it out of the way and allow the other, less fancy and new trains continue trundling along.
I'm hoping someone somewhere is reading an Owner's Manual right now and highlighting bits for their next briefing.
P.S. - I discovered a new feature on the new trains. The transit maps above the doorway update themselves. When our train plotzed, our subway station on the map (St. George) lit up in red, and all the other affected stations (every south of us and continuing north to Finch) were also illuminated red, and every station north of us was green. Kind of like the traffic indicators on Google Maps. Eventually I should be able to walk on to a train, glance at the map, and instantly see where any trouble spots along my route might be. Cool!