The issue, as Ms. Walker explains it, is this: When she arrives in Hartsdale on an outbound Metro-North train, having been helped on and off by crew members who laid out a special metal ramp for her chair, she finds herself stranded on the outbound platform, with no way to reach the inbound side (where she lives).
Stranded on the planet of the apps.
One pedestrian become stranded on the median as time expired.
We weren't exactly stranded on the frontier without UPS.
I lived on 74th Street between Second and Third Avenues, where I, along with -- I'm guessing -- a billion other New Yorkers relied on the 6 train to ferry me into and out of the Upper East Side, which meant, if it was rush hour, standing stranded on a platform teeming with anxious, angry, and annoyed commuters watching train after train speed by, too jam-packed with people to bother stopping.
The rallies were short, which did not suit Watson, whose rare success came through angled chips that left the German stranded on her power-platform at the back of the court.
Thousands of angry, confused and frustrated commuters, some of them stranded on station platforms, scrambled throughout the morning to find other ways to get to work and arrived hours late, if at all.
Most of us also recall the opening night of the Millennium Dome, when VIP guests were stranded on a station platform in dinner jackets and evening dresses on a cold New Year's Eve for as much as four hours.
They found survivors that night, most of them stranded on a single platform.
The knock-on delays saw huge numbers of people stranded on platforms and some forced to jump closed barriers to avoid the crush, while onlookers posted dramatic images online.
The rerouting and loss of service left thousands of passengers stranded on West Side platforms.
