07-12-2017, 12:14 PM
(07-12-2017, 09:23 AM)urbd Wrote: Wow. If it is at least once a week, isn't there anything that GO (or any authority for that matter) can do to prevent them? I mean if you know for sure that at least one person will die every week because of a service you are providing, I'm sure something could be done better to prevent it. This reminds me of the suicides at university campuses, and how university officials simply see them as "one more statistic", "on par with national averages", etc etc... well, if you know it's going to happen, why not be proactive and really try to prevent?
What do you suggest?
Some of the fatalities are in urban areas where there are relatively few crossings of the track, and people cut across; this can be fixed with expensive new bridges or underpasses. Probably most are suicides, and with hundreds of kilometres of track it's probably not simple to reduce that.