[PRCo] Re: Houston Light Rail

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!


> Fred Schneider wrote:

> Still doesn't work.    I remember meeting a rather
> perturbed motorman in Calgary,....... And some idiot
> deliberately drove around the gates and got hit



	A comment I wanted to include before but overlooked is amplified
here.

	ALL  the drivers, pedestrians, motorists, passengers, managers,
labor, doctors, lawyers, Indian-Chiefs, leaders, followers, etc.
Are Taken From The Same Mold  --  Human--Mold.

	Hardly anything unique about driving habits in one area over
another  --  or any other *habit.*

	We have all probably seen the PBS documentary detailing people
getting killed walking across a multiple track RR mainline.   
Doc. starts with people walking across the tracks, shows
construction of a people walk-way across same tracks All The
While with people walking across the tracks  --  shows the
Completed Pedestrian Walkway across the tracks  AND  People Still
Walk Across The Tracks and the doc emphasizes that it was the
rare individual to use the completed walkway.

	All this happened in Europe Where - presumably - people know All
About Transit, Know How and Do Use Transit, and have higher
standards than elsewhere.

	Balderdash  --  People Are People Are People No Matter Where
they are.    And 2- or 4-week vacationers do not have the total
picture of what goes on there.    Move there and live there a
while - several years - and one would change his tune.

	Europe is great for Transit and Trains but this is an 
IM--Perfect World and Their Trains Do Have Wrecks  --  some
mighty spectacular wrecks at that.    And their trolley poles on
trolley buses  DO  dewire despite claims to the contrary!



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Jim

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