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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BigJim [quote]QUOTE: Maybe some railroad crossings should be engineered so that, when a train is coming, the pavement folds up after the lights flash and the gates come down, so anybody with the bright idea of going around the gates would **WHAM** smack right into the raised pavement![/quote] The big problem with this idea is that there would be no way that an emergency vehicle would be able to cross the tracks in case of a gate malfunction. The thing that I just don't understand is the nationwide lack of personal responsibility. No one seems to want to take the blame for their own mistakes. For at least the forth time, John Doe has to cross a RR crossing, he knows there are tracks to cross but he doesn't take the time to stop-look-listen. He just keeps going and WHAM. Doesn't matter if the horn was blowing because he was going across those tracks no matter what! Even with STOP signs at the crossing, still they never stop! RR Crossing safety begins at home! It is up to each one of us to use good judgement crossing the tracks. Be it a whistle crossing or not! Lotus098, You speak of police force and communism. Well guess what, Big Brother, the FRA has mandated the RR crossing rules. Is that not a police force of sorts? [/quote]But the horn signals are in the railroad rulebooks; at least they started there. It would not be good for a railroad to have an image of being unsafe (UP is the safest historically) I am certain if the FRA, not a from of police since they only make regulations, hadn't made the rules, railroads would put in crossing guards anyways. James[C):-)]
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