Train/LRT safety

[ijmorlan]

From what I understand it was towed down the hill just North of the Grade Sep because it's a 6% grade (steepest part).

Also, before anyone else gets any ideas... someone posted a photo of the top of the LRV's.  That's great!  What is not great, is that the photo was taken illegally, while the person was trespassing on railway property (walking on the bridge).

This is ridiculously dangerous and stupid, and the police will arrest people caught doing this.

https://www.operationlifesaver.ca/

It may be stupid, but if the bridge is built the way I understand it to have been built, it is not dangerous, inasmuch as the area where the photographer was presumably standing will eventually be a platform, open to the public. It was probably more dangerous to climb up there (might slip and fall) than to stand at the railing.

Lots of railway trespassing is perfectly safe from a personal injury point of view. There is nothing magical about ownership of property by the railroad that makes it dangerous. It is almost entirely the trains, and they run on tracks. It brings the whole concept of safety awareness into disrepute to claim danger where there is little to none.

Of course I still don’t recommend it, for legal reasons including the possibility of arrest. But let’s be accurate about safety.

And if I misunderstand how the bridge was built and there actually isn’t extra space to stand at the edge, then I retract this post.