01-12-2018, 09:53 PM
(01-12-2018, 09:32 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: The problem, as I see it is, and this happened to me twice today, the bus proceeds to stop before the GEXR tracks, and while the driver is the process of doing the check down the tracks, the light turns red, and they stop and wait for the green, but now they are stuck with their back end on the Ion tracks.
I have also seen something like this on University. They pull across the pedestrian crossing, stop to check for trains, then stay there when the light goes red.
In both cases, however, the problem is that the drivers are driving incorrectly. Specifically, they are stopping at a red signal when they are already in the intersection. As every Young Drivers student knows, once in the intersection you clear it, you don’t block the box. So the drivers should be continuing through after stopping to check for the trains.
Of course, they should also stop checking for trains because doing so is useless, but I can’t remember if we concluded that was just a GRT policy or if Transport Canada would have something to say about that.