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Re: Observing GCOR Rule 6.30 At The El Monte Metrolink Station
Author: Station Design Consultant
Date: 05-09-2012 - 11:54
While it may seem crappy, this rule doesn't apply. Both tracks are adjacent to the platform being used (in this case a center platform). No train can come between a train and the platform.
Yes, but pedestrian ACCESS to that platform is in the form of a surface walkway that crosses the # 2 main track. The concern that a hurried passenger attempting to catch a westbound train sitting on the # 1 track getting whacked by the eastbound train on the # 2 track is a valid one. The suggested method of operation by Armchair Dispatcher would probably go a long way in preventing this.
This rule is for stations were there is one platform on the side of two tracks (usually both tracks are paved over in this situation).
I think you may be splitting hairs here. The rule is intended to prevent a passenger attempting to board a particlur train from getting whacked by another train entering or transiting the station, that train being between the passenger and the train the passenger was intending to board. The pavement arrangement involving the tracks isn't all that important. It's the fact that the train that could potentially whack the passenger is entering into the area that the passenger needs to access the original train.
It is meant to keep a train from taking out passenger unloading and walking across an active track to the platform.
And wouldn't that apply here in the case of the El Monte station? The intent being not to run over somebody at the surface pedestrain walkway that accesses the center platform?
The rule says nothing about trains coming between a platform and the station itself or the parking lot.
I think that is the intent of the rule, even if it isn't worded with such specificity.
This still doesn't help that a rushed passenger could run into the path of an inbound train.
I know. It's a poorly designed station. A pedestrain tunnel would be the best solution. But that costs money.
Yes, but pedestrian ACCESS to that platform is in the form of a surface walkway that crosses the # 2 main track. The concern that a hurried passenger attempting to catch a westbound train sitting on the # 1 track getting whacked by the eastbound train on the # 2 track is a valid one. The suggested method of operation by Armchair Dispatcher would probably go a long way in preventing this.
This rule is for stations were there is one platform on the side of two tracks (usually both tracks are paved over in this situation).
I think you may be splitting hairs here. The rule is intended to prevent a passenger attempting to board a particlur train from getting whacked by another train entering or transiting the station, that train being between the passenger and the train the passenger was intending to board. The pavement arrangement involving the tracks isn't all that important. It's the fact that the train that could potentially whack the passenger is entering into the area that the passenger needs to access the original train.
It is meant to keep a train from taking out passenger unloading and walking across an active track to the platform.
And wouldn't that apply here in the case of the El Monte station? The intent being not to run over somebody at the surface pedestrain walkway that accesses the center platform?
The rule says nothing about trains coming between a platform and the station itself or the parking lot.
I think that is the intent of the rule, even if it isn't worded with such specificity.
This still doesn't help that a rushed passenger could run into the path of an inbound train.
I know. It's a poorly designed station. A pedestrain tunnel would be the best solution. But that costs money.
