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• Pantograph commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  Anonymous' friend is lucky to be alive. If she worries about looking like a fool, her good fortune obviously hasn't sunk in yet....
• xaxa commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  Are there benches on the platforms? When I'm that drunk in London I usually stagger to a bench and sit down. (Actually, I've usually missed the last train.) I expect the driver had trouble seeing her because of the difference in light levels -- she was driving in a dark tunnel towards a brightly lit station. Someone waving would be move obvious as they were blocking the light....
• Nadreck commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  coldspell - #28: Subway platforms in Japan and Taiwan often do have enclosed platforms. Besides the safety issues it also lets you air-condition the platforms. I'm wondering if the Boston system has emergency boxes to kill the power on the third rail as the Toronto system does at the end of the platforms. (They had to change all of the instructions on these at one point after someone was fried when someone didn't push all of the required buttons inside one during an incident.) As to all of you people diss'ing the drunken Boston Beans - I think you all...
• thanbo commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  #37: Scollay Square is the old name for today's Government Center station. #57: Alewife is a fish. Why there's an inland bus station named for a fish is another question... Coldspell@28: open platforms. Well, you may have more than one model of car/train running on a given line. I suppose it's less likely in Boston, where each line is pretty isolated from the others, but in NYC, for instance, you have 2-3 routes running on the same track, using different equipment, with doors placed differently. So a fence is less than practical. The same route may be using both old...
• The Chemist commented on Inebriated woman falls in front of oncoming train
  I gotta say I get the warm fuzzies from stories like this: That start out horribly and end with people not getting hurt or suffering relatively minor injuries. It reminds me of Mo Rocca on Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! expressing his disappointment that Balloon Boy wasn't actually in the balloon: It wasn't that he wanted him to be hurt, but he was hoping he would be in the balloon and safe because let's face it, that's an awesome story....