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Ed, I am not attacking anybody.  And they used the term out of box.  I only repeated it in reference to their usage.  Although, I do know it is a hot button.  As far as dismissing the report, I was not inclined to draw enough of a conclusion to dismiss it.  So I just save all this stuff.  I have reports on putting air bags on the front of locomotives in order to protect pedestrians.  My only conclusion about this report so far is that it is a royal pain to read it.  And I did read all of your earlier post several times.  I did notice that you said: “Fact is if someone came along, offered to buy out the signal maintainers, and assume liability for all grade crossing safety, not just the “passive” or rural crossings, most railroads would jump at the chance to opt out completely..” My interpretation of the report is that it is proposing exactly that.  But there is one specific point about this report that you raise in your latest post, and I am not sure what the report actually intends as a way of addressing it.  They do say that they will reduce cost and that will reduce quality.  But I hear them make the point that there is more quality than there needs to be.  So even though quality will be reduced, it does not necessarily follow that it will be reduced far enough to reduce safety.  But as I mentioned above, it is hard to believe that there is that much excess safety in the current systems.
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