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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith I watched the video linked to the initial posting and I'm a little confused by the intent of the posting. The video shows impatient idiot drivers trying to save a couple of minutes by driving thru the RR crossings in defiance of flashing lights and trying to beat the lowering gates. Just Plain Stupid People, i've posted my feelings on this elsewhere, where I live we have accidents all the time between commuter trains/streetcars and idiot drivers. EVERY SINGLE TIME theres been an accident its been someone trying to beat the train or they stop on the track for a traffic signal in complete obliviousness to the "Do Not Stop on Tracks" signs and they expect the train to stop for them, like its just this big steel bus. Stupid is as Stupid does, and people who willingly ignore crossing lights and warnings ar just proof of that saying. [/quote]Tell me ---your in a string of 50 moveing cars approaching a light on the opposite side of the tracks ---Where are you going to end up if car 17 say is caught by the light? Duh I dunno. The crossing lights are supposed to be tied in with the traffic lights if you didn't know any better . Also the crossing equipment is to be timed longer and anything over 45 seconds median barriers put in. Can you tell me where the 200 sets of crossing lights went to when the trench project opened up out there? Quaranteed they were stolen by the railroad and sold back to the state, sold out of country, or used for spare parts. The equipment wasn't theirs to take. Tracks are abandoned and the RR goes in and takes the equipment---The tax-payers paid for it at 5x its real value if the truth was known. By the way the car in the picture was exiting the crossing and the gate was on the opposite side of the street so the car wasn't going under the gate it was LEGALLY going beside it. I was joshing when I said the car was going in reverse. The time sequence here ---At 27 seconds the car LEGALLY entered the crossing-At 26 seconds the first light blinked while the car was still Legally in the crossing area-at 24 seconds the gate started down at 22 seconds the car Legally passed the gate exiting the crossing. Either that or it was staged which happens all the time also. As long as the railroads can keep the public thinking it's there own doing the attention won't be drawn to them for the billions of dollars worth of safety equipment needed for the speeds the trains run at. And what your watching on TV is the cops covering for the cities, counties, and states negligience for letting the RRs get away with it.
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