(03-08-2023, 06:28 PM)ac3r Wrote: Hopefully they pull through.
Proper grade separation would have prevented most collisions and fatalities but that would have cost more money than it's worth (actual human lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix LRVs and other infrastructure). And while it's easy to argue "well don't try to beat the train" that doesn't really matter when people are always going to do that anyway and thus preventing that in the first place is what should be done first.
Obviously I hope for the best but the pedestrian was crossing the street mid block, half way between the Cameron st intersection and the Cameron heights driveway. By walking the extra two minutes to cross at Cameron it would've been entirely avoided. So while it is obviously best for the whole system to be grade separated the pedestrian wouldn't have been struck had they crossed where they are supposed to. Not to mention that it was not political possible at the time to do grade separation.
According to the article the fire department had to lift the train to extract the victim before transporting them to the air ambulance.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/person-airl...-1.6304786