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This three-sided pole on an airport tram
(sh.itjust.works)
I had never seen one of these before today. They're great. Way better than reaching for a single pole in a crowded car and wrapping your hand around some stranger's fingers. And If you have the whole thing to yourself you can hook your arm through it.
People are allowed to stand and walk around on these things. They’re not cars. They almost never come to a violent stop. Even the emergency brake takes like 15 to 20 seconds to bring one of these things to a stop.
You say this, but I see unexpected tourists fall from stopping all the time in metro systems all around the world 😂
lol. True dat. They don’t know that you have a wide stance, perpendicular to the train’s direction. You have to ride that bitch like a skateboard.
Yup this is how you do it. I ride the train standing up without holding anything all the time. If you stand perpendicular and lean during accel/decel it's very stable. If you are facing parallel to the trains direction you're gonna faceplant.
If this is Sea-Tac, the rails are completely walled off. Doors open onto the tram only when it arrives. Everything else is walled off, like an elevator.
? I mean falling/tripping onto the ground of the train when it stops, not falling onto the rails. If I was used to seeing tourists fall onto the rails... that'd be... concerning 👀 . The only place I've ever seen non-workers on the actual rails is NYC, because NYC.