This three-sided pole on an airport tram
This three-sided pole on an airport tram
I had never seen one of these before today. They're great. Way better than reaching for a single pole in a crowded car and wrapping your hand around some stranger's fingers. And If you have the whole thing to yourself you can hook your arm through it.
Well now how am I supposed to enjoy the sensation of someone else's sweaty hand sliding down the pole to slowly touch mine while they remain oblivious of the entire situation?
Yeah, they’re pretty common on newer train cars.
Also, obligatory San Francisco BART picture.
In the métro in Lyon the bar are similar too:
San Diego trolley has them as well
For a moment, I thought, this was one of those airplanes with which they do zero-gravity flights...
Cool idea, but hooking your arm through it looks like a great way to break said arm if you stop fast.
Trains like this don’t decelerate that quickly when you pull the emergency break. If they did, you’d have injuries from standing, not being buckled, not having headrests, etc.
They decelerate quickly enough if they stationary train.
I'm not sure it'd be worse than hooking your arm through a single pole. Presumably in that scenario you're trying to stay put, right? If you're getting shoved hard enough to break your arm by being yanked off the pole you're getting shoved hard enough to crack your skull against one as well.
Realistically, the only way a commenter train is going to change direction or decelerate that violently is if something derails it or slams into it.
Trains like this don’t slow down very quickly, even if you pull the emergency break. That’s why people are allowed to stand, walk, etc.
People are allowed to stand and walk around on these things. They’re not cars. They almost never come to a violent stop. Even the emergency brake takes like 15 to 20 seconds to bring one of these things to a stop.
Okay I have a crazy radical idea that is going to disrupt the entire pole industry:
4-sided poles.
Now bodies touch each other instead of just hands.
I like how you think...
Don't put your arm through it. Just don't. OSHA does not approve putting your arm between metal bars on anything moving.
Sea-tac?
Where I'm they're very common.
A fellow Denizen of Tripostia?
That clitic broke my brain.
They're common all over Europe.
These are pretty common where i live. You will be thankful to find a spot to hold on to on rush hour though.
I can still remember the awkward accidental grabbing of hands in a crowded public bus when I came back from school.
Here's the thing, though, I know I've seen them, but I couldn't tell you where to save my life. This is gonna be killing me forever now.
Definitely not Atlanta. Never been there.
Denver's trams
OP said Seattle, but I've also seen them at Denver
I just saw that the OP said Seattle airport and that's plausible for me. I'm going to choose to think that was it and save myself the mental agony.
Denver
Denver
They're in the Atlanta airport, in the Marta trains within the airport, if you've flown through ATL before.
Neat, I like it.
Looks kinda expensive to fabricate (relative to a plain pole), though. I'd probably value-engineer it out if I were designing the train car, TBH.
bleah
Yeah I can see how that's better than the old style. Which airport if you don't mind me asking?
Seattle, on the tram between the main airport and the north satellite gates.
This seems a lot like the one I went to in Atlanta. Pretty sure it's the busiest airport in the world!
So, basically one of the best for a residence, then?
Busiest for commuters for sure, I think freight is Anchorage
That airport is so weird. Feels like someone built a massive airport around a 90’s shopping mall.
Also Dulles
what, nobody is going to mention that this is a stripper pole for my overweight mother?
We weren't going to say anything out of politeness but now that you said it I'm comfortable telling we call her money bags because in the right light the dollar sign tattoos on her ass makes it look like she just robbed a bank.
Accessibilty is important!
Damnit, Son! Get off the Google box and go clean your room! I'll be home when the lunch rush ends.
Don't you dare touch my hand!
Some NYC subway cars have double poles
Bonus: You should be able to put a hook around the bottom to hold your bag/umbrella. Someone measure the diameter of the pole so we can start making 3D printed hooks for this purpose!
Subway rider here. I will always have one arm through my bag handle. People often get stuff stolen on commuter trains in a lot of cities.
People yoink stuff and jump off the train right before the door closes.
Bonus: You should be able to put a hook around the bottom to hold your bag/umbrella.
Or yourself!
This is how you get hooked on 3D printing 👍
Atlanta?
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mildly drunken / jet lagged / other traveler slips hand into pole, somehow grabs the far one and positions their wrist between the other two. train stops, traveler is unfamiliar with riding trains, is thrown off by weight of bags, etc, arm snaps. what a great design.
Sucks to suck
Has that ever happened lol?
Call me crazy but I’m gonna say if you can’t hold a goddamn pole that’s on you.
