RTD Upholds Blue Line Operator’s Actions

Transit officials said a Blue Line train operator acted correctly when he refused to let a disabled woman off a car after the doors had already shut.

The incident left two young boys who were under the woman’s care stranded on a station platform Saturday night as the train left.

RTD spokesman Greg Davy said the train’s operator, Henry Garcia, followed proper rules because the front car was beyond the station platform when Garcia received a call from the woman.

The doors were four feet above the ground, and passengers could have been endangered if the doors were opened, Davy said.

The brothers, 10-year-old Joseph Kirby and 7-year-old Christopher, walked through downtown Long Beach to a home they were visiting.