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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think this is a flawed concept.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Another train coming” could simply be interpreted to mean another train in the succession of trains that pass by every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Therefore, I see no reason why a pedestrian would necessarily conclude that the warning refers to the anomaly of a second train approaching, but obscured by a visible train, as the system intends.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">A pedestrian is likely to conclude that the ATC message is just a supplementary warning to the bells and lights of the crossing, and therefore, miss the point of the ATC warning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>After all, the bells, gates, and flashers are all working at the same time as the ATC warning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And like those bells, gates, and flashers, the ATC will sound an alarm when trains are merely standing in the circuit, further reinforcing the perception that all the warning devices opereate together and mean the same thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span></span></span></span></p>
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