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Ok Ed, let's try this again!! My girl & I drove a good 500 miles here in SE Wisconsin & Northern Illinois over the last week trying to find a "Ultra Hazardous" X-ing.....here is what we found. All the ones that I would expect to be dangerous had a crapload of signs posted on or near the X-ing. It's amasing just how effective a simple STOP sign is!! The one crossing that sticks out is one that has high visiblity of the tracks to the side but is ontop of a hill. The slaped a Stop sign on it, so you dont have any excuse not to stop. I remember this one because some kids (yea I was dumb at one time too!)used to FLY over this hill. Unfortunetly on a few of these X-ings they never landed properly an lost control.....paying the ultimate price. What Im still trying to figure out is why sue the RR for personal reasons. If I lost relation due to a car-train collision, the first thing I'm asking is "Can I visit the Engineer?" If some one can answer the question "What happened?" Thats is the only person who WILL have the answer, take it or leave it. Next If these people who are involved in collisions need to visit schools and public malls(where permitted) and hold speaches or pass out flyers to send this message a little stronger to home. Why sue the crap out of the railroad? Instead ask for money for PSAs, school speaches and for booths at the local malls! I never seen booths or meetings in my schools or local malls, but Im positve it will make you look twice after seeing photos of the damage done. As for PSA's, remember when do YOU go to the fridge to get a beer..Yep..during commercial breaks. If there was PSA's durring primetime tv, this would help send the word. But little$ is spent on education(at least to me). I NEVER seen a LIFESAVER comercial on MTV or on the SPEED channel. I know about AFLACK! and to wear a rubber, but nothing about Stop, Look, Listen, Live!! One thing that I do know, common sense is getting less common. If lights are red STOP. If not take a glance to your sides. At any crossbuck slow down to look BEFORE crossing. There is a reason the signs are there..It's for us. The worst thing I've seen is pedestrians walking straight into a train at full speed. Yes bodies do bounce very far if hit by a massive loco!! Dispite stop lights flashing and horns blaring..I watched the video in horror while a man and a women approched the train station's ped. X-ing. He stoped...she didnt even know what hit her( so sad:( ). Apparently she thought the lights was for the parked train unloading passengers atleast thats what they said on the news. If it seems like Im ranting to much, Im sorry!! It just is truely sad that 50 diferent people had to respond to a topic that we should not even have. REMBER Common sense is getting LESS common!! Have a SAFE and happy '03-Icemanmike-Milwaukee
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