03-01-2017, 01:05 PM
Regulations typically now require a walkway, yes - and it's ugly. But it can allow light to trickle through (see Sao Paulo for Bombardier's latest). So, LRT here gets hideous massive crossbucks everywhere, and monorail gets a catwalk... we do go a bit overboard on the safety end of things now. Haneda and other legacy monorails get away with it because they have excellent, well-thought-out evacuation plans in place, including bringing another train along side and lowering a connecting bridge between trains, or towing the failed train off to the yard with a diesel tug.
Viewfromthe42 - this is exactly what happened recently in Croydon.
Viewfromthe42 - this is exactly what happened recently in Croydon.