11-20-2019, 04:29 PM
(11-20-2019, 03:53 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: That is a fair point. Overall I hope the most vulnerable people on an LRV are seated, but an emergency stop still does have the potential of causing injury. Incidentally, does anyone know how fast an emergency stop is? I mean, is it like a bus stopping suddenly or more sudden than that?
Even without causing injury to others, if a person on a bicycle collides with an LRV there are significant costs. At minimum you disrupt the travel of the people on that train, maybe throughout the whole system for some period of time, use time of the LRV driver, potentially the police and medical services.
Don't get me wrong, it's senseless that someone on a bike who crashes into a train receives a more significant charge than someone in a motor vehicle who kills somebody, but some charge should be laid, and there is a potential cost associated with infractions even when on a bike.