On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:43:54 -0800, Scott en Aztl‡n
Road Trip, NSW & Vic, AustraliaOriginally posted on aus.cars, thought some of you guys might be interested as well. I decided to head out on a road trip this weekend for a break, and to catch up with some friends...
However, do you feel new train stations should be built so people have to cross tracks, or do you feel they should be built as safe as we reasonably can? I know one side is open ended, but you get the point.
To a point I agree.
Now, I think there are times (a lot of times) when morons choose Darwin for the morning coffee, but there are also times when people are paying attention, and acting reasonably, and somebody else forces them into the path of a train.
One contrived example - the person I unpleasant womaned about last week who tailgated me after I pbutted. Had I stayed behind him, and he does a head on with somebody, his car or the one he hits is going to be in my path. With a 2 second following distance, which almost nobody uses, you are going to hit the wreckage.
So, flame me now, but I am glad the train is only going to be doing 30MPH instead of 70MPH through an intersection that crosses at an angle of less than 20 degrees from behind. Personally I think it should have to go slower than that. Those trains can get up to speed quickly, slowing to prevent carnage is not a big deal to me when we know it is going to continue happening.
