02-27-2020, 09:03 PM
(02-27-2020, 12:02 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: Some of the delays this morning were so bad they actually had a train at Waterloo Town Square 30 minutes behind proceed to the crossover and then just turn around and go southbound instead. Is this all weather-related or what? Listening on the scanner for a couple hours this morning, there are so many malfunctioning gates. One e-brake near-miss with a pedestrian, truck blocking the tracks, car under a gate...
At least one car on the tracks. I wouldn't call it weather, I'd call it bad driving. I came to a realization today, when reading the WRPS tweet stating they had 80some collisions reported in the past 12 hours, we all remark during the first snowfall that everyone forgot how to drive in snow--but that isn't the case, drivers are never good in snow, we just forget how bad it is, every year, so the first snowfall isn't "oh so many crashes, they'll get better" its, "oh, so many crashes, we'll get used to it".