Speed

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Jim Holland wrote:

> operator can't see clearly around the curve.  Longer stretch to Potomac. 
> - ALL of this is backyard running in very close quarters.  You may stop 
> cars with crossarms but there are children all over the place - will they 
> stop for crossarms?  It is far too congested an area.
...
> and several stops.  You can't get going 40 mph in case you have to stop 
> at one of the stops and you can't see clearly around the curves.  Signals 
> won't prevent hitting something else on the tracks and the tracks have 
> been common ground to many people for most of the century!

If you lived along a busy road, you wouldn't let your kid run around near
it, right? Why expect less of people who live along the rail tracks? 

You do have a point about the frequent stops though, but when the Port
Authority had hearings about getting rid of some recently, no one wanted
*their* stop eliminated. I'm not surprised, but then, I walk further than
to the nearest bus stop because I live near the end of the line, and most
drivers turn short to go to the layover point (which is just inbound of
here... not that in most cases it doesn't make more sense to catch them at
the end of their layover)...

Hey, any of you know of a likely source for a PCC gong?

-D