12-15-2021, 09:19 AM
(12-15-2021, 08:29 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Or even the road. There is no gate needed when the train is there because the train blocks the crossing.
I have mused about that myself. On the one hand, I’m concerned that people would have a tendency to go when the gates rise; on the other hand, if this were universal, everybody would know (not just intellectually, but in their habits and unconscious expectations) that you don’t go when the gates rise; plus as you point out there would be a great big honking (literally!) train occupying the crossing. And getting people out of the habit of going when the gates rise would be a benefit at locations where there are both regular traffic lights and railway crossing protection.
The one tricky bit would be the situation where the train stops while it’s partially fouling the crossing and then reverses. The gates would of course go down again before it starts moving but in the meantime people might try to sneak past centimetres from the end of the train.