12-14-2020, 02:36 PM
(12-14-2020, 10:34 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: I don't think I buy this explanation...the 15 km/h section starts a minute before the curve...we have lots of other turns which don't have similar ridiculous restrictions.
Are the turns with non-ridiculous speed limits in Line-Of-Sight (LOS) areas? I have no idea, I’m just wondering if that might be the difference.
It doesn’t really matter, because even if there is a reason that means they can’t just simply fix it, it still doesn’t justify it, because it is ridiculous for the train to have to go as slow as it does. This is similar to the O-Train “can’t operate with doors open even in an emergency without going back to 1800s scheduling technology” problem; regardless of the technical details, it’s ridiculous that they have such a problem. In both cases, whatever the detailed technical explanation, it just means the designers screwed up earlier in the process.