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Another Orange Line driver honored for stopping train before hitting person on the tracks at North Station
By adamg on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 1:03pm
Corrado. Photo by MBTA.
MBTA officials today formally commended Orange Line operator Patricia Corrado for bringing her Orange Line train to a stop before running into a guy who'd fallen onto the tracks around 3 p.m. yesterday at North Station. Passengers on the platform were able to pull the man up. Channel 4 reports Corrado credited passengers for alerting her by waving their arms as her train pulled in.
In 2009, at the same stop, a drunken woman fell on the tracks just as the train was arriving. Orange Line operator Charice Lewis was similarly honored for stopping the train in time. In that case, the woman actually crawled out from under the front of the train.
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Commended for doing her job?
WTF? Is this our standard? "Here's a medal for hitting the emergency-stop button. Good job."
Back to the cave chief.
The operator was officially commended, not given the Nobel Prize. She directly saved a life and you take a pot shot on the simple official thank you?
Back to the cave for you.
Yes, how dare they honor
Yes, how dare they honor someone for saving a person's life.
All things are relative
...and compared to the operators who plow their trains into stopped trains in front of them, this one deserves a show of appreciation. I'd say a promotion would probably be appropriate soon, as well. Let's face it: Yes, she was just doing her job, but doing it quite well. Many others seem like they're not doing theirs, like those who can't audibly announce stations.
Look at it this way
NOT killing someone with a train means that the T won't likely be sued, a commendation and "good job" might mean a few less nightmares for the driver, and that means lots of money saved - not to mention a human life! It also draws attention to the fact that, while people wouldn't blame the operator if she had run the guy over, drivers should be paying enough attention while approaching stations to be able to see and react to waving people.
Besides - NOT dead SHOULD be a celebration anyway.
SwirlyGrrl, I never took you to be pro-life. Awesome!
@SwirlyGrrl: "NOT dead SHOULD be a celebration anyway." At least we agree on something.
That might make sense IF ...
... what you were speaking of was ALIVE in any legally defined or scientifically valid sense of the word.
Access to abortion is very much pro life. Check out some WHO stats on what happens in countries that restrict access to abortion - they don't stop there, but also restrict reproductive health care for women. This results in lots of dead women, lots of fetal demise in utero, low birthweight, high infant mortality etc.
Then look at how many funding cuts were targeted at the programs that keep our already shamefully high infant mortality rates as low as they are by supposedly "pro-life" Republicans and tell me how THAT is pro-life?
if you can't put your hands
if you can't put your hands straight up in the air instantly after reading this comment, then you really shouldn't be talking trash.
We're talking trains here
Not roller coasters.
Saving a life is always worth commending
How often does anyone here get to do it?
The 1st comment here reminds
The 1st comment here reminds me of a boss I once had who didn't believe in giving merit raises, or even praise, for doing your job well (after all that's what was expected) nor even doing your job exceptionally well (that's what he also expected). His reasoning was logical, I guess, but it led to alot of turnover.
He was a stickler for getting to work on time. And , in the year I worked with him ,I was never late to work; but he was upset that I was nearly late too often... but I'm drifting off topic.