What is disconcerting is that TDO expects guests to be stranded on the monorail so they went to the trouble of making the windows removable (recent development) rather than repairing the equipment to the point this does not happen. In their minds this is "normal operation".
And that takes the award for the most gigantic leap in assumptions ever to grace the pages of the interwebs. Many, think ahead measures are made to maintain the safety and, at least, partial comfort in the event of a problem. Only a group with their head firmly up their butts would think that nothing would ever go wrong. The second biggest is that it might be done instead of maintenance. Please tell me that you weren't being serious. Here we are talking about knee jerk reactions to a simple situation and in the same thread we get this fake, fabricated and, very knee jerk statement.
It's troubling the conditions but not troubling they made the windows like this. Whether 100 times from lack of upkeep or 10 times from a thunderstorm, there should be a way for fresh air to get in once the system goes down. They can have the best system in the world but it's still going to breakdown at some point and even if it's once, there needs to be a way to do this.
Gee, I wonder why there was no way to get air other than the 1 inch opening of the end windows for all these years and TDO found that acceptable? The ability to remove the windows is a recent change to these decades old trains. Must be due to global warming....
I have never known a public transportation system that didn't have emergency windows that could be opened. My guess is that they have always been there, or were recently discovered by safety people that they needed to be there. It's possible they just never mentioned it. I don't really know what the situation was, but, it just didn't make any sense that they would go to the expense and trouble of installing them at this late date to avoid maintenance.
No, some windows have always been removable, the recent change is the door windows being removable too.
The large windows used to fall outward to the ground. Is this the same with the smaller door windows or do they remove inwards?
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Well even if the system is properly maintained and has new trains the possibility of a monorail being stranded without power will still be there. The removable windows were never really designed for ventilation, they were for emergency exit. Each car has four small ventilation windows in each corner. Those small windows really aren't enough though and I suspect that they added the removable windows to the doors to minimize guests having to handle the larger heavier windows.
So much for not leaning on the doors!!! LOL
Not bad for a first post...
Por favor, mantenganse alejado de las puertas y ventanas
Oh man, his personal twitter is a real treat to read through. How did I not know about this sooner??
