Chief I doubt the ‘City’ really gives Fire Safety a much of a factor, that’s why they have FDNY to handle the matter. Like Lithium Batteries it’s too political to consider. Anything that does not have gas powered transportation involved is good no matter the unintended consequences.
Is there a training video on that?
Incase of an emergency brake activation, the operator and conductor has to manually check each and every individual brake on both sides. According to the MTA due to the open gangway the operator and conductor(s) cannot safely check the brakes while on the express platform (even though you cant check the brakes on one side of the local track..)
A bunch of major metro areas and interurban rail carriers, primarily in Japan/Europe use the "open car" passthru design. My experience has been that MUs are capped at 4 or 6 car consists between hard stop endpoints. Max consist is usually 8 cars in this format in Europe but is much longer in Japan.
Makes it easier to run car to car when the shooting starts.
