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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(02-23-2015, 01:47 PM)ookpik Wrote: Nevertheless I suppose all cars should have at least one rampable door for emergency situations where passengers must exit directly to street level.

In an emergency, the doors open, and the passengers step 10 centimetres down to the road surface.

As I stated before:

-The TTC's CLRV and ALRV fleet do not have ramps.  They have steps which lead up to a high floor.
-The St. Clair line was designed/built around the CLRV/ALRV design, not FLEXITY Outlook.
-The new FLEXITY Outlook vehicles the TTC has co-developed with Bombardier have one deployable ramp per train, which were custom designed for those trains.
-Those ramps can be deployed on demand in situations where the platform-to-train vertical rise is too much for a person with a mobility issue to navigate (one step up).
-The ramps could possibly, theoretically be retrofitted for use on FLEXITY Freedom (Crosstown, ion), but since the first two customers of those trains are using them in true-sense Light Rail applications designed from the onset for these specific trains with dedicated right-of-ways and proper-height flush platforms, there will be no need for any ramp to bridge between platform and train.

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Look ma, no ramp!
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by Canard - 02-23-2015, 09:11 PM
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