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Here in Illinios they expiremented with a crash net. If censor's detected a car heading towards the tracks it would drop a net to try to stop the vehical. They could not get the net to drop fast enough so they canceled it. They spent a lot of money trying to get it to work. A taxpayer group got a little angry but when they found out that most of the funding was coming from the railroads they quited down. (The source of this was a article in the Chicago Tribune can not remember the date. It was in the transportation Sunday section). Did anyone else from Chicago recall that article? <br /> TIM A
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