What's the craziest thing you've seen on public transportation?
What's the craziest thing you've seen on public transportation?
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I have been sitting in a tram that emergency breake'd. It was all seriously fast: Ring of the warning bell (like an overgrown alarm clock) towards the driver of the car, and next thing was that I was leaning over an old lady sitting in the opposite side. They accellerated like a snail on dope, but breaking was applying ACME Insta Stop.
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A lot of trams carry sand that they can put on the rails to get more grip when they need to break really fast. That might be what happened there
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Yep, they did indeed sand. But I never expected this antique fuc-er to stop on a stamp like that. I'm glad it was still slow at that point, or it would have been a big problem.
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Does that cause a lot of damage, either to the rails or the … tram bits?
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It is far worse to not use sand, then the wheels will lock up and slide for longer, developing flat spots which will destroy the rails they run on
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No, I don't think so. There is cleanup required on the rails of course, but it's used fairly regularly in some places I think when the tracks are wet
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196 comments