Originally Posted by
GrayAnderson
I mean, I think part of the problem is that at various stations (NYP, WAS, included) there's basically no way to enforce it if you have a reasonably full load of pax boarding. If you have 200+ pax boarding a train at WAS (hardly unheard-of for some peak-hour Regionals) then the resulting queue would have to stretch for over 1200 feet. And of course, that's before we get into the rush hour loads of MARC/VRE commuters.
And that's WAS. Trying to enforce social distancing at NYP at rush hour would be an utter joke under anything close to normal circumstances. In the case of NYC, the problem (and no small part of why the virus went as wild there as it did) is that in a lot of respects, social distancing is just flat-out impossible.
WAS was a mess. Then they took the roped lines away, and it was a BIG mess. Then they put them back, and it's just a mess again. NYP? My God, that is the most ridiculous thing ever. No one knows what track the trains are coming in. Everyone stands there watching the board, then everyone dashes to the escalator. No social distancing there.