05-27-2016, 10:42 AM
(05-27-2016, 10:29 AM)panamaniac Wrote:(05-26-2016, 09:28 PM)Canard Wrote: I hope so, but I'm not optimistic, given history. It's one of the inevitabilities with the technology, since it interfaces at road level with all other modes of transport, instead of traveling above or below grade. Houston has had a particularly bad time with this.
I still say a safety campaign should be started sooner, rather than later, to get the word out about safety and behavior around tracks.
You misunderstood me - I doubt we will have to wait three full weeks from the time ION starts running regularly to the first reports of contact with vehicles. I fully expect ION to become K-W's "scratch and dent" trains.
To be clear, I don't expect any of it to be due to the trains - we will be able to thank local drivers!
Of course, that's not how the driver's nor the Record will see it
"This crash wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the DAMN LRT. My car crash is the fault of LOCAL POLITICIANS."