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Can a disembodied voice have a right? Or a left? I get it, of course: "she" means to the right as you face the direction the light rail train is moving. But if there was an actual conductor—and the recordings that announce each station stop are meant to create the aural illusion that there is an actual conductor—she wouldn't make her announcements with her back to us. She'd turn face the passengers, some of whom are facing away from her, but all of whom are riding behind her. Which would put the door on her left, right?