(03-08-2023, 07:37 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: 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
Doesn't sound good at all.
Hope this forum doesn't victim blame or jump to conclusions, though, as it likes to do when it comes to 4+ wheel vehicles hitting people or inanimate objects like steel signs. We'll know when we're settled they're alive + well and subsequent investigations are concluded. Medical privacy and similar mean we don't really know who smashed down a centre island yield sign and curb hopped nor misjudged a turning radii (nor this, should parties really try to hide the news) so it's impossible to shift blame. Quite often it doesn't even matter if a pedestrian hit knows they should not be, say, jaywalking...but it happens...so it wouldn't be fair to say "whoever was hit should have crossed where they should have". Regardless of outcome it should have been designed in a way to not allow the potentiality in the first place (one reason why subway systems are now putting walls on platforms, for example).
Also political viability shouldn't mean a thing at this point. 45+ collisions and 1 (possibly 2) deaths at this point should show it doesn't mean how much we've spent on grade separating or not. Look at how angry people have become over the LRT not operating a couple times this year from ice (which was a known potential issue and contractually agreed on whether they knew they could operate in or have to shut down, within reason). Maybe it's just the industry I work in? But you do it the most perfect you can the first time when you are involving actual lives. I wouldn't allow a floor of a building I made collapse each year or power outages in it to occur once a month (which more equal to hitting LRT incidents) seem acceptable no more than you do design a rapid transit system and green stamp it, knowing it's going to have problems that can be minimized should you simply not just be cheap.
Just 1 human life would be the cost of the entire LRT being a subway.