Posted on 06/18/2011 12:08:38 PM PDT by Immerito
Staff Writer Michael A. Lindenberger had a front-page story this morning about the harrowing ride that some DART passengers had after Thursday's parade for the Dallas Mavericks.
The northbound train, packed with people going home from the parade, got stuck for almost an hour in the tunnel near Cityplace.
No one ever told the passengers what was going on.
"People were hitting the little button to talk to the conductor," one passenger told WFAA-TV (Channel 8). "No information was coming back whatsoever. Nobody was talking to us." He added that when he tried to use an emergency phone to reach DART, "it was dead."
Eventually, some people got off and started walking up the tunnel to the Mockingbird Station less than a mile away.
They shouldn't have done that, according to Morgan Lyons, spokesman for Dallas Area Rapid Transit. By getting off the train, those riders broke the law and endangered themselves and others, he said.
"We are thinking about their safety first," Lyons said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thescoopblog.dallasnews.com ...
“I keep wondering when people are going to get a gut full of pinheads like this DART administrator lecturing to grown people like they are children.”
Based on the comments at the Dallas Morning News site, It appears that most people who bothered to comment are not looking at DART favorably.
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