It has to do with the visually impaired - the gaps between train cars are similar to doors if you can’t see well
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This is an accessibility issue for people with low vision. there is a design flaw in the train which leads to people falling between the cars, so WMATA announces that it is a 7000 series. the issue is specific to those cars.
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Read something recently about how it's an alert to visually-impaired folks because those trains have worse protection of gaps between cars (which they could fall into if they thought were open doors).
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Disembark if it starts singing “Daisy”
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If you can get it to open the doors...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2018/07/12/dc-riders-answer-line-this-is-a-7000-series-train-so-what/ … TLDR: To let visually impaired people know about the gap
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I swear someone says something about it every ride. Ok, they’re tourists or here for work, we commuters keep our heads down and avoid eye contact. Please don’t talk to us and stop people puddling at the ends of escalators people! Stop!
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Haha, listening to it now from Navy Yard to New Carrollton.
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there's an unspoken "those 6000 series trains are piles of shit compared to this" in there i guess
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They are new and wmata wants you to think all the money goes to shiny new cars.
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I’m almost certain that recording is new, too. I don’t remember hearing it until a few weeks ago. Baffling.
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