04-09-2015, 09:16 AM
And before someone pipes up and says it's only freight trains that kills people, remember that 43 people have died since 1981 on Calgary LRT, and since Edmonton was brought up as a place that has a fence along the tracks, there wasn't a fence here when teenagers were running and goofing off near the tracks and they both died. A recent fatality in Minneapolis seems to involve a man that went around the safety gates. Seems like even self-closing gates might not be enough to keep people off the tracks. I know Waterloo is apparently the smartest city in the world or some bollocks like that but it's probably not beyond installing some basic safety measures to prevent needless deaths like these. Most of these people didn't have to die if reasonable precautions are taken and serious efforts were made to keep people off the tracks.