05-02-2017, 11:21 AM
(05-02-2017, 09:42 AM)NotStan Wrote: Yeah why wouldn't we box in traffic so if this happens there's a 30-45 minute delay. Not like there's a hospital nearby that people might be trying to get to.
I expect there are going to be multiple "annual (?) occurences" that we will encounter that stress the limitations of our system.
Of course we don't want it to happen. But everything in life is a trade-off. And this isn't even in the top 1000 negative side effects of having an LRT.
And the hospital argument is especially absurd. We'd need this to happen at the exact instance an ambulance was in the section that gets blocked. Otherwise there are lots of routes into the hospital and we're talking about a very minor delay. The expected value of negative health effects from this problem are trivial. Easily dwarfed by the negative health effects of the LRT and cars already.