Comments on: The 10:40 train http://www.theaoife.org/bored/2007/01/17/the-1040-train/ monkey musings and interspersed poo flinging Tue, 22 May 2012 22:28:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Aoife http://www.theaoife.org/bored/2007/01/17/the-1040-train/#comment-1667 Aoife Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:18:22 +0000 http://www.theaoife.org/bored/2007/01/17/the-1040-train/#comment-1667 That's awful. I mean, sometimes that kind of thing is kids (and certainly not just kids) being stupid, but other times it's really like the one here... you can't see and it's infrequent enough that stopping to look doesn't seem like a decent alternative. There's another spot here near a high school where there's no lights/bar/etc. It was on a road, but they took away the road going across the tracks and have those concrete pylons and stuff up. You still hear about someone being (at least) injured there every once in a while. Most everywhere here any tracks that cross non-private roads have the whole caboodle of stuff, I really don't know why that one spot doesn't. I actually keep meaning to email the town about it... 100 feet away at the next road it crosses it has all the stuff... I don't know if it was just forgotten, or what. I think it's the only non-private actual road in the city that's like that. hmm... That’s awful. I mean, sometimes that kind of thing is kids (and certainly not just kids) being stupid, but other times it’s really like the one here… you can’t see and it’s infrequent enough that stopping to look doesn’t seem like a decent alternative.

There’s another spot here near a high school where there’s no lights/bar/etc. It was on a road, but they took away the road going across the tracks and have those concrete pylons and stuff up. You still hear about someone being (at least) injured there every once in a while. Most everywhere here any tracks that cross non-private roads have the whole caboodle of stuff, I really don’t know why that one spot doesn’t.

I actually keep meaning to email the town about it… 100 feet away at the next road it crosses it has all the stuff… I don’t know if it was just forgotten, or what. I think it’s the only non-private actual road in the city that’s like that. hmm…

]]> By: Yureikuma http://www.theaoife.org/bored/2007/01/17/the-1040-train/#comment-1666 Yureikuma Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:06:56 +0000 http://www.theaoife.org/bored/2007/01/17/the-1040-train/#comment-1666 When I was in college (Auburn University) we had a couple of students killed each year at a "no lights/no safety arm" crossing. It finally took a class action lawsuit by the parents of 6 of the dead kids to force the county to install safety equipment. As I was a first responder at the time, I had the misfortune of helping to remove "organic debris" from the remains of the vehicles. As a rather poignant postscript, the engineer of one of the trains committed suicide from the guilt of not being able to stop in time. When I was in college (Auburn University) we had a couple of students killed each year at a “no lights/no safety arm” crossing. It finally took a class action lawsuit by the parents of 6 of the dead kids to force the county to install safety equipment.

As I was a first responder at the time, I had the misfortune of helping to remove “organic debris” from the remains of the vehicles. As a rather poignant postscript, the engineer of one of the trains committed suicide from the guilt of not being able to stop in time.

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