(03-13-2023, 07:49 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(03-12-2023, 09:38 PM)ac3r Wrote: It mAkEs nO SeNsE To sPeNd a hUgE AmOuNt oF MoNeY GrAdE SePaRaTiNg tHe sYsTeM To sAvE OnE LiFe pEr yEaR
Glad to hear the kid who got struck survived. Sad to hear there has nonetheless been an additional fatality. Hopefully Keolis/RoW has some good therapy services available for the LRV operators for what is going to be an inevitably long term problem: minimal safety, constant accidents and deaths every so often.
Why are you hyper-focussed on a tiny amount of death and injury related to the LRT? Why aren’t you agitating for grade-separating all our major car routes? Even if we did suddenly get a bunch of extra money, grade-separating the LRT wouldn’t save as many lives as a lot of other ways I can think of spending the money. Why is this so hard to understand? And why are you doing tHaT tHiNg with the capitalization? Could it be that you have no rational response to what I’m saying?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jFqhjaGh30
Why are you okay with a faulty transit system? That relatedly fails in the winter, gets into accidents all the time and which has maimed a child and taken two human lives and traumatized the people who operate the trains as well as the individuals who have been in accidents or have lost loved ones?
What's so hard about admitting that it's faulty and should have been designed better so as to avoid this?
This isn't a "tiny amount of death and injury", it's regular occurrence. Dozens of accidents, two deaths and junk trains that can't handle a bit of freezing rain. You can't pretend it isn't if you want but it doesn't change the reality. And pointing at the obvious fact that road vehicles kill more people is meaningless. Of course they do because there's more of them, but the issue here is faulty trains and poor safety.
Yeah we should think of the children, great observation. Consider the one that was just struck and hurt so bad they were air lifted away any has now had his life utterly altered.