When the trains seem to be arriving and merging in an odd schedule.<\/p>\n
When the train stops at a train signal that is never, ever red.<\/p>\n
When the train stops in mid track, between stations.<\/p>\n
When the train starts again, then brakes to a halt a few seconds later.<\/p>\n
When the train sits there for several minutes.<\/p>\n
When the train starts up again and goes to the next station.<\/p>\n
When the train leaves that station, goes a few hundred yards, then stops again.<\/p>\n
When the train motor audibly stops.<\/p>\n
When the lights on the train go out.<\/p>\n
And then start up again.<\/p>\n
When someone in an RTD uniform goes trotting down the tracks from the front of the train to the back, and then back again.<\/p>\n
When the train starts up slowly.<\/p>\n
When you noticed that, even though your train was stopped for several minutes, very few trains passed by the other direction.<\/p>\n
(According to the “Attention!” marquee at my final stop, there was an electrical\/power problem at I-25 and Broadway, delaying service for, yes, about 15-20 minutes. Which I’m sure has all the New Yorkers and Londoners in the audience rolling their eyes at my breathless tale-telling, but it’s the first malfunction or problem I’ve run into on the LTR since I started taking it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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