Exit 4 Pilot
Rayna Benincase
Another thing I have noticed since the last hotfix is if flying sometimes when you get into the pilot seat you can only move you view crosshair very slowly to move the ship, once you get off the pilot position and back on it is back to normal control.
Your safety is our top priority, and we are continually testing new ways we can improve safety across our transit system. As many of you know, we recently rolled out a public safety pilot program at our Westlake MacArthur Park station that our customers tell us improved their sense of safety at that station. Now, we are launching a new pilot at North Hollywood with the goal to achieve positive outcomes by ensuring that our system is used for the purpose of travel by improving fare compliance.
We have also increased the visible presence of our teams at North Hollywood Station. These include our Blue Shirts, who provide assistance with our Ticket Vending Machines, our Metro Ambassadors, who help riders navigate the system, connect you to resources, and report issues they see, as well as our law enforcement partners, and our Transit Security Officers (TSO) who enforce the Code of Conduct. Representatives from our LIFE (Low Income Fare is Easy) program, will also be available to enroll riders into the program. To learn more about LIFE, please visit the station in person or online to see if you qualify.
1. This is a Fire Hazard
2. There are no fare loading machines on the inside of the turnstiles and installing more would be a waste of money
3. Turnstiles are not labeled exclusively for exit or entrance, bad crowd flow
4. A card error will be indistinguishable from fare evasion, innocent people will be punished
TAP still works even after phones go bad. This has been proven time and time again. Literally what smartphone batteries were designed for to keep in mind. Plenty of YouTube demonstrating that it still works after phone batteries die out.
The stupid and outdated laws need to change already so transit pass can be used cross-agencies. There is literally no excuse for Metrolink to not accept TAP cards at this point. The clipper card, hop card and Orca all use the same tech as TAP.
Chicago has the same turnstile gates as LA. The tall rotogates (what you describe) are only used at auxiliary entrances or unmanned stations. We currently do not tap out (something the CTA should consider). Also just in the last four months the transit card has just been integrated into the regional rail system (our version of Metrolink). We love the new changes as we now no longer have to stop and get a ticket to use the regional rail system.
The one valid argument though is Metrolink riders as they are stuck with QR codes because for some reason even though tap cards have been shown to work the same way in Orange County and San Diego county, the idea of transit cards on Metrolink or outside their county limits seems way too futuristic just for them, but at least Metro came up with a band-aid solution for the time being.
This is definitely a good move, but most people who evade fares simply walk through the open gates intended for the handicapped, ignoring the actual entrances entirely. I imagine they will continue to do so, or perhaps jump or vandalize any entrance or exit that blocks them.
I ride the red line every day and it is filthy. People do not feel safe because the rules about eating and littering & soliciting are not enforced. There is little effort to keep the trains clean and criminality flourishes in the dirty environment. The trains are cleaned at 4 AM before they go into service, but by 8 AM the floor of every car is covered with spilled drinks and trash. How about actually cleaning the trash from the trains? How about installing trash receptacles at the doors of trains? Instead of going after folks for a $2 fare violation, how about having law enforcement ticket the unauthorized vendors who ride the trains selling tamales, beer, soda, chips, headphones, belts & socks? Surely security cameras have captured this illegal commerce. There should be a cleaning crew that sweeps the trains in North Hollywood & Union Station before they go back into service. How about steam cleaning the drool & beer stains from the seats, repairing the cigarette burns and removing the graffiti?
I think this is a great idea however, I wish there was the system would be updated to be able to tap with phones instead of cards. Having traveled to cities such as New York and Amsterdam, it is much more convenient to be able to tap my phone for payment instead of having to download an app or reload a card in order to use public transportation.
Tapping out is a great idea, glad to see Metro trying it out. Yes, plenty of people use the gates, but not when the police are there. Also for people who enter from voluntary platforms like on the light rail system and transfer to the subway its another way to gather fare. Finally, its just a best practice and if you can tie the entry and exit points you get better transportation data.
Tapping out is a great idea, glad to see Metro trying it out. Yes, plenty of people use the gates, but not when the police are there. Also for people who enter from voluntary platforms like on the light rail system and transfer to the subway its another way to gather fare. Finally, its just a best practice and a way to get better usage data, if you can tie the entry and exit points you get better transportation data.
Other rail systems require exit validation because their fares are calculated by distance, and have machines that allow customers to add exit fare if necessary. LA Metro only has the flat entry fee, and no ability to add fare to cards while inside the gates.
Deducting fare at exit could also potentially double charge a rider whose 2hr transfer window runs out while on the train to North Hollywood. That window is for passengers to initiate their rides, not end them.
This likely explains why they are starting in NoHo instead of Union Station where it makes more sense. Compared to NoHo, if this was implemented at Union Station, the lines to get out for Metrolink riders would be quite long.
Hi, thank you for your feedback. We are currently developing a plan (to be presented to the Board in Spring 2024) that will outline what an in-house public safety department would look like, should the Board approve creating one. This will explore staffing, deployment, costs and more. -Metro Social
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (L.A. Metro) has launched a pilot program at the North Hollywood B Line station fare gates to see if requiring people to tap out of the rail system would help confirm that valid fare was paid.
With the launch of the pilot, riders tap their card and initiate a fare deduction at the start of their trip. At the end of the trip, tapping out will confirm fare was paid and open the fare gates. If riders have not tapped their card when starting their trip, they are in violation of the L.A. Metro Code of Conduct and could be warned, cited or removed from the system. If riders have a valid TAP card, their fare will be deducted when they tap out at the turnstiles but it still constitutes a violation. L.A. Metro notes riders should be sure to buy or reload their TAP card before boarding.
Try the arrow keys on the keyboard, I think those allow you to walk forward/backwards. At least they work for me! I can use the rudder pedals to get the pilot to rotate left/right and up/down arrow keys to walk forward/back respectively.
The pilot program includes a device like an iPad or tablet, mounted on boarding gate kiosks. As a passenger walks towards the biometric scanner, the facial recognition device will scan their face and compare it to a database. If the face matches, the machine will clear the passenger.
Sometimes however, they do not provide me an exit instruction quickly enough despite the fact that I'm rolling up to where I should be exiting for Taxiway B. They might either be busy with other aircraft or simply don't call out an exit instruction. Sometimes I've just rolled past Taxiway B and other times I start heading my aircraft in that direction just to finally hear Tower give me instructions to exit via Bravo.
So, the question is, if I know I'm almost always going to be assigned a given taxiway, should I take it or should I always be waiting for Tower to assign one and thus just keep idling down the runway until I get an assignment from them?
I will like to clarify, 100% of the time, I have received a taxiway instruction AFTER I've started to point the nose of my aircraft at a taxiway. I have never actually exited the runway without finally receiving the instruction.
a. Exit the runway without delay at the first available taxiway or on a taxiway as instructed by ATC. Pilots must not exit the landing runway onto another runway unless authorized by ATC. At airports with an operating control tower, pilots should not stop or reverse course on the runway without first obtaining ATC approval.
b. Taxi clear of the runway unless otherwise directed by ATC. An aircraft is considered clear of the runway when all parts of the aircraft are past the runway edge and there are no restrictions to its continued movement beyond the runway holding position markings. In the absence of ATC instructions, the pilot is expected to taxi clear of the landing runway by taxiing beyond the runway holding position markings associated with the landing runway, even if that requires the aircraft to protrude into or cross another taxiway or ramp area. Once all parts of the aircraft have crossed the runway holding position markings, the pilot must hold unless further instructions have been issued by ATC.
Infact, at major/congested airports "Minimum RWY Occupancy Time" procedures are predetermined for both dep and arrival, so as to take the concept to it's limits. So, to minimize your time on the RWY is the conventional requirement, but the procedures to achieve this can be unconventional, for example,
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