11-22-2024, 12:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-22-2024, 12:18 PM by danbrotherston.)
(11-22-2024, 11:46 AM)bravado Wrote:(11-22-2024, 09:12 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: Top tier driving qualification in action.
This has nothing to do with transit planning. A driver that stupid is going to get themselves killed someday, no matter how the LRT line is designed. Of course, if we had a subway, the driver wouldn’t have collided with the LRT specifically, but they could reasonably be expected to hit something else at some point.
You say this like “keeping transit and cars physically separated” is some sort of impossible magic. It’s what we should have done when designing the system, but we were too cheap and afraid to do it.
We know that a fixed amount of drivers are lunatics. We should design a system that acknowledges they
The problem with your statement is that the only way that happens is by keeping trains away from everything, including people...which is bad...and pointless, a driver like this hitting an LRT is bad, and bad optics, but drivers like this injure people every day, and it doesn't even make the paper.
The real solution might be to keep cars away from everything, but our society clearly isn't ready for that...even the Dutch don't do that...although the Dutch seem to have figured out how to limit the harm bad drivers do.
Or TL;DR....lets not start this again, cars are the problem, not trains.