12-08-2017, 12:48 PM
(12-08-2017, 10:32 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: It's somewhat understandable. The roads are indeed blocked off - each time the LRV comes, the existing systems will block the road. No systems exist for the park, and the unpredictable nature of testing likely means that they can't just trust that open pathways won't put people's safety at risk. Would I want mitigations? Of course. But I can understand why the mitigation isn't "keep everything open".
I don’t think it is at all understandable.
All the crossings, including the ones in the park, have crossing protection bells, lights, and gates; if the issue is that they aren’t working yet for the non-road ones, that is simply incompetent planning from the team. If they can get the road crossing ones working 3 months after service was supposed to begin, they can get the non-road ones working too.
Or, they can flag the crossings as I understand they have been doing for the testing anyhow.
Also, my understanding is that testing starts out with slow-moving vehicles. Remember, railway crossings aren’t potentially dangerous because trains are magically dangerous: the danger comes from a combination of high speed and inability to stop. The LRVs have neither of these issues to the same extent as many freight trains, and they don’t have them at all during the slow speed testing phase.