Jumping Closing Doors - USA - City Buses Get the Escalefter Treatment
Washington,DC,USA -DCist.com -Sept 12, 2006: -- WMATA continues its trend of futile campaigns today by announcing it will start warning passengers not to chase fleeing buses... After six pedestrian fatalities in two years, including a 62-year-old man who stumbled and fell underneath the wheel of a bus as he chased it earlier this month, Metro's looking for the bus version of the stern-motherly voice on the trains to keep people from jumping in the closing doors. Also, we think we heard a panicked city lawyer scream something about limiting liability... Metro also plans to install warning sensors on 55 buses that will notify the driver when it is closer than three feet to another vehicle. One imagines these sensors won't be much help to a ten-ton passenger bus as it speeds down K Street, or if the obstruction happens to be a pedestrian or bicycle, but they're certainly a step in the right direction... (Photo by Dupont Knitter)
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