I've outlined all the technical differences many times throughout this thread between Toronto's heavily-customized FLEXITY Outlook vehicles and and Waterloo's standardized FLEXITY Freedom vehicles; I'd be happy to run through them again if anyone's interested.
I like how it's automatically the "driver's fault".* Many LRT accidents involve pedestrians and cyclists, too, who aren't paying attention, diddling on their phones or blasting their music in their headphones, unaware of anything going on in the world around them.
* - I fully realize and was simply pointing out that you singled out motorists, not cyclists and pedestrians. I'm aware that virtually all crashes involving trains are the fault of the person who gets hit. I know it's fun as a cyclist or pedestrian to always blame car drivers for everything but the fact is all 3 are the ones at fault, pedestrians and cyclists too. I can't think of any Light Rail accident in recent history, except the Muni crash, which was caused by LRV operator error (and even that one was medical related, I think). I just want people to be aware that Waterloo Region isn't somehow magically excempt from the crash curse that follows surface-rail technologies operating in roadways (LRT). If we had chosen an elevated technology, we would not be having this discussion. This is the technology we chose.)
I like how it's automatically the "driver's fault".* Many LRT accidents involve pedestrians and cyclists, too, who aren't paying attention, diddling on their phones or blasting their music in their headphones, unaware of anything going on in the world around them.
* - I fully realize and was simply pointing out that you singled out motorists, not cyclists and pedestrians. I'm aware that virtually all crashes involving trains are the fault of the person who gets hit. I know it's fun as a cyclist or pedestrian to always blame car drivers for everything but the fact is all 3 are the ones at fault, pedestrians and cyclists too. I can't think of any Light Rail accident in recent history, except the Muni crash, which was caused by LRV operator error (and even that one was medical related, I think). I just want people to be aware that Waterloo Region isn't somehow magically excempt from the crash curse that follows surface-rail technologies operating in roadways (LRT). If we had chosen an elevated technology, we would not be having this discussion. This is the technology we chose.)