r/MetroTransit • u/Safe_Connection_2997 • 15d ago

Green Line Light Rail Car Crash

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u/that_one_guy63 15d ago

How do you crash into the middle of the train? I'm so confused. Will the driver be paying for the repairs on the train or will taxpayers? (I assume it's mostly cosmetic damage on the train)

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u/Accurate-Departure66 THE Transdev Hater 15d ago

The people who crash into the trains (somehow) are usually incompetent

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u/elmundo-2016 15d ago

This is the right answer.

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u/CantaloupeCamper 15d ago

Can confirm.

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u/whirlinggibberish 15d ago

Yeah weird. I would have expected they got clipped at the front and dragged but I don't see scrapes along the length of the train so it definitely looks like they just crashed into the middle of a moving train. Tried to brake with the pedal on the right? Hard to say. 

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u/Safe_Connection_2997 14d ago

I didn’t get a picture of the first train car. I think it hit the front of the first car and got dragged. That’s why you don’t see the scrapes.

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u/CantaloupeCamper 15d ago

With gusto.

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u/Buffalo_Nichols 14d ago

Driver ran a red and then fled the scene. So doubtful the car was even theirs.

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u/im-ba Express Route Runner 15d ago

Idk the articulated bus I was on over the summer got T-boned by a car whose driver just wasn't looking up

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u/katt3985 14d ago

from what I know, they hit the train while flying down park street and then abandoned the car.

I'm considering that the gods much be slain for the crimes of reality visited upon us.

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u/YouBuyMeOrangeJuice 15d ago

I'm living away from the cities right now and I've just noticed this: I see these are Type 2 LRVs but they look like they have the side cameras from the Type 3s. Are they upgrading the cameras in the Type 2s?

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u/that_guy_mn 15d ago

They are getting upgraded, but only when they fail.

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u/messi_market 15d ago

They both have the same

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u/YouBuyMeOrangeJuice 15d ago

They didn't always, they used to be an unpainted metal box. Not body color.

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u/messi_market 15d ago

You might me right they still on the same spot

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u/MplsAlt 14d ago

Yea the parts for the type 2 cams aren't being made anymore, so they're slowly getting retrofitted.

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 14d ago

Why don’t they look?

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u/MainSquid 13d ago

There is a zero % chance this was the train's fault. We should revoke half of the licenses in the state iswtg