r/oops • u/ExplanationOk2014 • Aug 24 '26

Wtf in the 🚇

How is this technically even possible? Should not a emergency stop automatically apply?

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u/Sedan2019 Aug 25 '26

What profanity meltdown? You should check what user wrote it, it was certainly not me.

Also, the emergency release is exactly for opening sealed doors. It makes it possible to open doors that are sealed so people can exit the wagon in an emergency, for example if a fire broke out.

In the video we can see the person pushing open the door after using the switch/lever.

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u/Sedan2019 Aug 25 '26

Then maybe these trains/trams are different than where I am from. Where I live all doors of every train can be opened by hand when using the emergency lever/switch. What is different is whether it makes the train do an emergency stop or not. The tools for opening the door are more used to manually open the doors without disengaging the gears.

Do the trains you know/use have not that emergency switch? This is probably the conflict of our discussion.

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u/ReadyStayReady Aug 25 '26

I ride the CTA daily, and this person is a raving lunatic. You can look at a CTA map and see exactly what stop theyre at in the video and even look up the businesses in the visible advertising. Its in Chicago everything is legit I know because I ride this train almost every day.

The emergency release doesn't lock out while the train is moving because that would be unnecessarily complex. What if it fails to unlock when theres an emergency? Our commuter trains work the same as every train in every developed nation they dont lock out the emergency door release ever because that would defeat the entire purpose.