12-09-2023, 12:12 AM
(12-08-2023, 05:28 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I wish trains travelled at 50km/h. In practice speeds are typical 30-40 km/h. And that's well below the speed limits, which are also often below 50km/h at 35-45km/h.
Safety paranoia is exactly the word I am looking for.
That being said...I'll give you that the chances of injuries or deaths would be higher if LRVs were routinely going 55km/h instead of 40km/h on that segment, given how many collisions there have been.
Injuries and deaths would be lower though because more people would be on the LRT rather than driving!
Quote:Of course, I wish safety paranoia was applied in any way to driving. Like...we'll do anything to ensure the safety of drivers the LRV hits, EXCEPT for restricting or enforcing their driving in any meaningful way. Like, we outright refuse to install cameras and ticket every single illegal left, but we will delay millions of passengers billions of minutes over the entire lifetime of the transit system to ensure that when a driver does make an illegal left they're less likely to die.
Right! The equivalent of the way we run the LRT, applied to driving, would probably mean a top speed limit of 40km/h on normal roads with sidewalks, enforced rigorously by photo radar everywhere.