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<p>[quote user="tree68"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Bucyrus:</strong></div> <div></div> <p> <blockquote> <div><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';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;">...infallible crossing protection.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span>  </span></span></div> </blockquote> </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#003300;">A mythological creature often rumored to actually exist, including reported sightings.  Such reports are generally quickly debunked.</span></span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</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;">Well I don’t want to split hairs over a tiny number, so I just use the word <em>infallible</em> to indicate getting the problem to almost 100% solved, as opposed to where it stands now on average, being far from solved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You know what they say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>“Perfect is the enemy of darned near perfect.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oddly, it seems like there are a fair number of people who are invested in the belief that problem cannot be solved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The report I linked in the first post is not at all pessimistic about solving the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They go bravely right into the heads of the gate-runners to see what makes them tick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></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;">The full gates or barricaded median will stop nearly all intentional gate running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You might still have someone occasionally falling asleep from a sleep disorder, and crashing through the lower gates, but that will be very rare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Suicides are another possibility for breaching the lowered gates, but again, quite rare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The meat of the problem is people trying to beat the train because they don’t want to take a chance on a big delay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The barricaded gates will prevent almost all such attempts at gate running.</span></span></span></p>
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