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I commute on METRA (UP Northwest Line), and I think that it has an excellent safety record, given the number of people that use it every day. I see hundreds of people getting off the train at busy stations such as Barrington or Arlington Heights, and running in every direction to get to a bus, a ride, or their own parked cars, and I am always amazed that more people don't get hurt or killed. People do not think. Yesterday, I noticed that trains were slowing and not entering stations where an opposite-direction train was standing or departing, and I think that this is a good practice, although it may play havoc with the timetable. In any event, it should help save lives where people are departing a train, and running around its end to get to the other side of the tracks.
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