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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by chad thomas</i> <br /><br />Antigates, <br />. As mentioned, cars these days are much more soundproof. And I think people are much more distracted these days. With so many people blasting there stereos and even more people yapping about nothing on there cell phones, they bring it on themselves. <br /> <br />If not for the innocent victims ....--<snip>--[/quote] <br /> <br />[img]http://home.comcast.net/~the_antigates/Smile/violin.gif[/img] I can fully appreciate all of those dilemmas,..but NONE of those are the fault of the people who've lived by the crossing s for decades.. are they? The world could do well with fewer people who drive with a cell phone glued to one side of their faces (imo) and if a few thousand of those guys who have bass blaster woofer setups in their trunk got press fit into the ballast near their local crossing, I'm not gonna cry too much....that's for sure. <br /> <br />as far as right vs wrong goes, well what amazes me is, so many passings are reasonably short horn usages, maybe a few short toots accompanied by a long..that it's no big deal. <br /> <br />Then you get these times where the engineer just lays and lays on the horn, which os often explained away here suggesting that some moron was probably trying to beat the train, or the engineer was hoping that by blasting the mans eardrums out he could persuade a suicidal maniac to rethink his plan and get off the tracks,..as if it ALL was about safety...then I see something like I saw sunday morning with two passing trains play dueling banjo's...with not a spare soul around that could be deemed a hazard...forces you to think. <br /> <br />Maybe the answer is to take the decision out of the engineers hand entirely, and automate the horn operation with a computer and localized proximity switches at the grade crossings? Thus avoiding the horseplay? <br /> <br />Oh, there would still be a manual activator for emergency situations, but with a tattletale logging device and the requirement that the engineer fill out a mountain of paperwork to document each incident meriting the exception?? That way when somone says "the engineer probably had no other choice" you could be reasonably sure they weren't just pulling yout leg. [;)]
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