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Door open buttons on London Underground
Greetings.
In article , James Farrar wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:15:19 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Tristan Miller wrote: What is the purpose of the "open" buttons on the doors of the London Underground carriages? On every Underground train I've used, the doors open automatically at every station. Is/was there a time or place where they don't open automatically and the buttons must be used? I have heard two possible explanations: one (as you stated) being that passengers were confused; the other being that there were fears of passengers using close-door buttons to close the doors on other passengers. Neither of these explanations seems particularly satisfying. I've used plenty of public transport systems in Europe where it was necessary to push a button (or even pull a handle!) to open the carriage door. Surely if continental types can learn to push a button, then so can Londoners. With respect to close-door buttons, that's not really germane to this discussion, as we're talking about open-door buttons. I've never seen an underground carriage with close-door buttons. On systems where there is an open-door button, pushing it causes the door to remain open for some fixed period of time, or until the train is about to leave the station. Regards, Tristan -- _ _V.-o Tristan Miller [en,(fr,de,ia)] Space is limited / |`-' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In a haiku, so it's hard (7_\\ http://www.nothingisreal.com/ To finish what you |
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