(03-13-2023, 06:57 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: What additional safety features do you want? According to the reporting on the recent fatal incident, the pedestrian was walking in the LRT right of way, which is completely fenced off in that area except for road and pedestrian crossings which are all signalized and have crossing arms.
This point in particular is interesting in light of this discussion, because it entirely invalidates the complaint that the LRT was not built grade separated: in the areas where the fatal incidents occurred, it is grade separated. OK, not literally “grade” separated, as in existing at a different altitude from everything around it, but if the Toronto subway counts as entirely grade separated then the areas of the LRT where the collisions occurred count as grade separated.
The following are grade separated, yes?
https://goo.gl/maps/h1KbG4RhotvKUbdPA
https://goo.gl/maps/DSZ6gaJcohVgsrW3A
https://goo.gl/maps/qSVt3CU5qrcikKWY9
OK, the subway has barbed wire whereas the LRT doesn’t. What more could anybody want? And they shouldn’t bother to bring up level crossings. If somebody uses a level crossing to access the track and then walks along the track, that’s on them. It’s not anything wrong with the system design. Anyway, there are stairs at every subway station giving direct access to the track, so it’s not even true that the tracks aren’t accessible (well, not wheelchair accessible, but accessible on foot).
It is true that there are design errors in the system. For example, the failure to provide additional crossings in the Traynor area is an unforgivable lapse of engineering judgement. But the lack of grade separation is not a design error by any reasonable criterion.