It’s not a mistake, where it was a mistery, see the train has a caption ” city tour ” since they have guided the visitors to see in (side) and around the city ( thats why they have parked the train inside a building….
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This shot is really confusing. To me it looks like the tram has gone through a building wall (one with sliding doors). What doesn’t make sense to me is
1. why there appear to be rails going IN TO the building when there’s clearly a wall there
2. Why the top bar of what appears to be the sliding doors has entered the front of the tram without sustaining any damage or causing any damage to the tram.
I know the shot is real, I just can’t for the life of me figure out what I’m looking at considering those two points. Help?
The tramline passes through the building and they recently put closing electric doors for the entrances that open when the tram comes but yeah its failed!
(i live in christchurch, it was in the news etc so yeah
1) the Tram lines pass through a large glass topped area in the middle of town called “Cathedral Junction.”. One side has a boutique hotel (http://offthesquare.com) located above the tracks. I was their live-in IT guy once upon a time.
2) The doors are not sliding… The one on the left of the picture is folded back against the wall. It looks to me like the other one auto-closed while the tram was passing through. Either that or it was closed and the driver ran into it – the tracks curve in that area so it would be possible that the driver couldn’t see it wasn’t open until too late. I imagine they will be introducing some more failsafes soon!
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The Christchurch tram service at Cathedral Junction. It’s a big open building, kinda like a covered market square, with big automatic hinged doors that swing open when a tram approaches. Built into the swinging doors are smaller automatic sliding doors for pedestrians.
When I was there two weeks ago, there were major building works going on just to the right of that photo. It wouldn’t surprise me if the builders have moved a sensor that indicates where the tram is…
for more fail trams go to edinburgh and see the tram they’ve dumped on the high street halfway through construction because they ran out of money building the tracks
Wow. That was fast, it only happened yesterday
all aboard to failville railroad
OMG how the fuck and what the fuck did ust happened???
Here, I think you dropped this “j”. And this grammar.
ah so this is Christchurch. I thought I recognised it.
LOL! I just emailed this in too! Damn! Too slow!
TAKE PILLS
It’s not a mistake, where it was a mistery, see the train has a caption ” city tour ” since they have guided the visitors to see in (side) and around the city ( thats why they have parked the train inside a building….
Haa…..
haa….
haa……
What the…
http://englishfail.wordpress.com
Here is the source:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4479870a6009.html
WTF nice crash !
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http://charlie.linkoverzicht.be/
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This shot is really confusing. To me it looks like the tram has gone through a building wall (one with sliding doors). What doesn’t make sense to me is
1. why there appear to be rails going IN TO the building when there’s clearly a wall there
2. Why the top bar of what appears to be the sliding doors has entered the front of the tram without sustaining any damage or causing any damage to the tram.
I know the shot is real, I just can’t for the life of me figure out what I’m looking at considering those two points. Help?
The tramline passes through the building and they recently put closing electric doors for the entrances that open when the tram comes but yeah its failed!
(i live in christchurch, it was in the news etc so yeah
How’d they manage getting THAT together?
@stef, it is a bit confusing isn’t it!
1) the Tram lines pass through a large glass topped area in the middle of town called “Cathedral Junction.”. One side has a boutique hotel (http://offthesquare.com) located above the tracks. I was their live-in IT guy once upon a time.
2) The doors are not sliding… The one on the left of the picture is folded back against the wall. It looks to me like the other one auto-closed while the tram was passing through. Either that or it was closed and the driver ran into it – the tracks curve in that area so it would be possible that the driver couldn’t see it wasn’t open until too late. I imagine they will be introducing some more failsafes soon!
[...] Christchurch has officially arrived on the world scene this week: our local tram’s little accident with a doorway has made the prestigious FAIL Blog. [...]
The Christchurch tram service at Cathedral Junction. It’s a big open building, kinda like a covered market square, with big automatic hinged doors that swing open when a tram approaches. Built into the swinging doors are smaller automatic sliding doors for pedestrians.
When I was there two weeks ago, there were major building works going on just to the right of that photo. It wouldn’t surprise me if the builders have moved a sensor that indicates where the tram is…
that’s fake
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486603a11.html
Well it’s not. a fake, 3rd recent booboo.
fake or not, hilarious.
Agreed lol
But it does look fake
for more fail trams go to edinburgh and see the tram they’ve dumped on the high street halfway through construction because they ran out of money building the tracks
Amazing
this is not fake i was there i saw
That is not a crash, that is just an exhibit.
public transit fail.