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David Bradley · January 7th 06, 09:43 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 6 Jan 2006 16:05:41 -0800, wrote:

Richard J. wrote:
Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
Dave Liney wrote:

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Back to the first point, the safety issue explains why close buttons
are not used (yet they are still used on NR), but doesn't explain why
the majority of Underground stock, which has open but not close
buttons, doesn't use them. Unless it's to save confusion, but they've
never cared about that before.

As the OP on this issue the statment above makes the point that open buttons
are to be found on the majority of Underground stock. Travelling around quite
a bit on the surface sections of the Underground, I have never seen the option
given for passengers to open doors. Forget the issue of closing the doors, if
that has to be done under official manual control, for perhaps safety reasons,
that is unfortunate. In sub zero temperatures having the doors open at each
surface station when there is no passenger movement means unnecessary
discomfort for travellers and additional energy to maintain heating levels.
So the why the hell isn't a built in feature to the stock being used?

David Bradley