01-24-2017, 12:22 AM
(01-23-2017, 10:16 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: It is kind of ironic that the northbound 7 through uptown has to stop at the freight tracks and look both ways to make sure the one 10kph freight train on that line isn't coming at some other time than 3am, but in order to do so has to stop with its back end sitting on the Ion tracks which will come every few minutes, 18 hours a day, at a much higher speed and it doesn't even stop and look both ways at the Ion tracks.
I find it odd that the #21 to Elmira stops at the same spur line three times, including on the road just outside of Elmira which is a fairly busy road. Given that the view down the tracks is unobstructed in both directions for a couple of km's to the northeast and several km's to the southwest, I am of the mind that stopping a vehicle that has no restraints for the passengers on a busy road with traffic moving 60-80+ km's an hour creates a more likely possibility for a dangerous situation than is the likelihood of a collision with a train that runs (almost walks given it's slow speed) on those tracks twice a day.
And before anyone goes off about rail safety, I understand the merits and logic of the law, but that doesn't mean that logic applies equally in every situation. In this case, I think it's silly.