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| Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 00:38 #79553 | |
gremlin604
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Hi everyone I signed up to CTA alerts to get advance warning of any interesting closures on the Chicago Loop. And this evening Green Line trains were delayed due to a 'sick passenger' Just does this mean a medical emergency/ambulance attendance or does it literally mean travel sick passenger?? Thank 
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| Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 01:32 #79554 | |
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RainbowNines
272 posts |
I imagine American parlance will differ from British. We genuinely refer to people being ill or unwell, Americans often use sick in this context. I can't speak for the "official line", but I was on a Northern Line train a couple of years back where a young chap fainted because of the heat. Driver stopped at Finchley Central and helped passenger off, where he was dealt with by the station staff. I would assume that a more serious case - a passenger heart attack or pregnant woman in sudden labour, wouldn't be so easily remedied, hence causing delays. In any case, I shouldn't have thought staff would react kindly to being told a passenger was travel sick unless they were projectile vomiting all over the place! Log in to reply |
| Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 11:43 #79558 | |
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Danny252
1461 posts |
I've experienced ~10 minute delays whilst waiting for an ambulance to attend a fainted passenger, but have equally come across delays of 2 hours whilst a passenger received medical attention on the train, their condition being bad enough that the medical staff didn't want to try moving them.
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| Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 14:27 #79564 | |
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Jersey_Mike
250 posts |
The NY Times did an entire article about what the "sick passenger" delay implies. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/nyregion/a-hated-phrase-that-subway-riders-are-hearing-more-sick-passenger.html Quote: As a rider the best thing you can do is get someone who looks sick off the train before they pass out and screw up the service. Last edited: 04/01/2016 at 14:29 by Jersey_Mike Log in to reply |
| Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 18:13 #79570 | |
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benstafford
88 posts |
In the UK it would be delay code VD passenger taken ill on train. http://www.delayattributionboard.co.uk/documents/dag_pdac/April%202013%20DAG.pdf Log in to reply The following user said thank you: headshot119 |
| Ambulance Attendance? 04/01/2016 at 19:47 #79577 | |
belly buster
368 posts |
" said:In the UK it would be delay code VD passenger taken ill on train.Should have taken precautions. Log in to reply |