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Originally Posted by bluedog2
Trains move way too fast entering and pick up speed very rapidly as they are leaving the stations. It's really eye opening if you stand back and watch or if you ever actually get brushed by one on it's way in or out of the station as happened to me once. In the very moment I realized how close I came to serious injury or death and I had nothing caught in or on the train. It was only a split second but my shoulder was quite bruised. The incident made me a wall hugger on subway platforms for the rest of my life. I sometimes stand along the wall watching all the people standing at the very edge of the platforms as the trains barrel in or whisk out and shudder at the countless near misses. Not to mention the ease with which some lunatic could shove them over the edge in front of an incoming train.
A big part of the problem is just people being stupid....standing near the edge in an attempt to get into the train before anybody else....rushing to catch a train... running along the platform, trying to shove their way into a packed train. Really, a lot of people need their thinking caps tuned up.
Another possible way to minimize these kinds of incidents would be for trains to enter and exit at much slower speed but that would increase train running times by maybe more than 5 mins on a long run so it's not going to happen. Train run times are only supposed to go down, never up.
They should make "being in a rush" an official cause of death and keep track of all the deaths caused by it , whether from cars or trains or anything else and publish the numbers. The numbers would likely be astounding. And then add in all the people who get killed by someone else "being in a rush". It would be like " I can't come to work today because my mother died. Oh really, I am so sorry. What happened? She was in a rush. Or, she got killed by someone who was in a rush.
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The train is very heavy. Each subway car is over 40 tons. Even traveling at low speeds it is a huge amount of force. Just like you said, even brushing against it will leave you with a big bruise or broken bones. The human body can't handle that amount of weight even grazing it. Most people are used to cars that only weigh like 2 tons.
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