[wastedyears]

To play devil’s advocate, it’s not Amtrak’s fault if and when vehicles cross the tracks at the wrong time.

[T-Bird45]

As I have pointed out in other threads, Western Europe and Japan have the train systems they do today because we blew their previous stuff to smithereens in WW2 then paid to rebuild them so they wouldn’t remain 3d world sh!tholes for any longer than necessary. Part of that rebuild was separating the train right-of-way from any interaction with a highway right-of-way. Thus, they have true high-speed rail that cannot interact with a random event like a vehicle driver crossing the rail line. Also, the dedicated passenger high-speed-rail line has no interaction with freight movements.

[hanamizu]

it’s not Amtrak’s fault if and when vehicles cross the tracks at the wrong time.

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Of course it’s not. But remember we are talking about JR apologizing for leaving the station something like 30 seconds early. I can’t even imagine the time discrepancy that generates a public apology from Amtrak.