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Its too bad they're alway trying to eliminate the important stuff. What are they doing with all that money we "Give" them, anyway. As a railroad signal engineer, I can tell you that no amount of education will ever over-ride the natural perception mentioned a couple of posts back. Its a matter of geometry - an optical illusion. The train simply appears further back than it is - especially at night. The same is true of an oncomming car when you are about to pass someone. That's why there are so many head on colisions, most at night. We have all kinds of discussions at national forums such as the A.A.R. puts on, about 4-way crossing gates and street curbing to prevent people from going around, but nothing ever happens. I work for a transit system that won't allow any grade crossings at all in our electrified areas. But trying to get the idea of a moratorium on new grade crossings on the diesel areas into the heads of the local politicans seems hopeless. Anybody who wants to build a road across any mainline or high speed tracks ought to be required by law to go over or under, period. I think the only real solution is to eliminate all grade crossings. Some think that is impractical. But it we certainly could do a lot more. One way is to put unemployed people to work in a sort of CCC or WPA project to build overpasses and consolidate street crossings. Unions have sometimes balked at such welfare projects, but this wouldn't take any union work away from them as this is something that otherwise won't happen anyway. Heck, it might even perk up the economy. Now what politician who wants to get re-elected could pass that one up. They seem to manage - go figure. RmC
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