The people waiting on Platform 12 are waiting for the 5:20 pm LSE train to roll into Union.The people on Platform 11 are also waiting for the 5:20 LSE train to roll into Union.
The problem with the people on Platform 11 is that they are not on the platform designated for boarding. Platform 11 is the side the doors will open for the arriving train so those getting off at Union don't have to wade through the people who will be boarding. This is done for safety. The platforms are too narrow and over-crowding is dangerous.
The people waiting on Platform 11 will be able to board the train before those waiting on Platform 12. This means they all get on the train first.
I wrote a post about my own departure door donkey (triple Ds!) episode.
It annoys people playing by the rules that others feel they are more important than them. How much you ask? I've got 27 emails in my in-box on this very topic!
I've read every single one of them but only one person mentioned anything about safety.
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I absolutely hate when people do this! So rude.
I actually confronted a woman about it once and she tried to give me a story that she had a sore ankle. Problem is, she was no where near the elevator, or the accessibility car. She had come up the stairs at the west end and walked to around car #8.
I would recommend that we all start boarding our trains from the other platform. This would force GO further ignoring this issue.
In my opinion, if people chose to risk their own safety that's their own business. As long as it's not effecting my safety or others who chose to fallow the rules I could careless.
We see these unfortunate accedents on the ttc lines every year.
People make their own mortality more real when they bend rules they do not understand. Ignorance is bliss people.
Ignorant people are everywhere. Same goes for those who just feel "entitled". I dont think that is ever going to change unfortunately.
I hate it when people stand on the other side. It's basically the same as cutting in line so that you can have first choice. Too important to wait like the rest of us.
But the worst thing I witnessed occured few years ago, after a Jays game. While waiting for the train a wonderful father noticed that there were much fewer people on the other side of the tracks, so he ran across the tracks, with his kids in tow behind him. I'd say his boys were both under 10. I was stunned.
This "Triple DDD" concept really interested me because I had no idea that you were not supposed to go to the other platform. For instance, when they say that the train is on platforms 7/8 I assumed that they did that so that people would spread out on both platforms given that there was so much construction and big crowds could be dangerous. Even before the construction was going on I never really knew this but hadn't gone to the platform (for instance platform 10 if 9/10 was displayed). I just followed the crowd but figured that they wouldn't display both platforms if they didn't want people to utilize both.
So on Tuesday I was on the exiting platform because I am injured and need help getting up and down to/from the platforms and a GO constable was there. I asked her about this. So for now it's okay, she said, for people to be on both platforms but, generally, without the construction, it's about jumping the line. While construction is going on they are allowing it. So please know that those of us that have done this are not all trying to get to the doors faster than anyone else! I didn't know, honestly. Presently, I am really afraid of some of the platforms where they are doing construction. However, aside from that, I am in need of some assistance getting on the train and platforms.
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