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To: Dog Gone
Many people who come to the Medical Center are not even from Texas.

Now come on!

Are you saying that people from outside of Texas have not figured out what to do at a Red Light?

From as far as I can tell, people in most other states and even nations STOP when the light is Red. The woman in this story Ran A Red Light!

She is lucky that when running the red light she was not broadsided by a speeding SVU killing her and her child.

14 posted on 03/29/2004 2:46:06 PM PST by jsbankston
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To: jsbankston
Ahh, I see your problem, and maybe it is the train's problem as well.

A speeding SUV would have also ran a red light at this intersection. The article states that the lights were red all around.

Pray tell, what do you do at an intersection when all four lights are red? Wait for them to change to all green?

If the train is going to share the road space with automobiles, it needs, no must share the lights.

16 posted on 03/29/2004 2:57:00 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber!)
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To: jsbankston
The train has been operational for less than four months, actually less than three on a full schedule, and we have 31 collisions. If that doesn't suggest a flaw in the concept to you as implemented, then I doubt any number ever would.

I can't wait until they complete the 70-mile expansion in the works. Naturally, the train will never be at fault because it has the right of way by law.

It's not a difficult concept to grasp that trains should be grade separated from other traffic because it's safer. Streets are for cars, trucks and buses. Runways are for planes. Separated train tracks are for trains.

20 posted on 03/29/2004 3:05:04 PM PST by Dog Gone
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