[PRCo] Re: Interurban Accidents (fwd)

[Fred Schneider]

Then the logic must be the same when you set aside a lane for bicycles?


On Sep 25, 2005, at 2:55 PM, prcopcc at p-r-co.com wrote:

>> John Swindler writes:
>>
>> Of course the one I always like is when someone runs into the SIDE  
>> of a
>> train at a grade crossing (:>)
>>
>> John
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> These side crashes  *-sometimes-*  have to do with  
> psychology.       Many
> lrvs systems have center of the highway prw, Not At All Unlike  
> dividers on
> big highways like expressways and freeways.       So a motorist in  
> his left
> hand lane believes that nothing operates to his right.       The  
> fact that
> there is only one  *-lrv train-*  every 10 minutes or so adds to this
> problem of psychology - rare that when a driver is in the left lane  
> that he
> sees  *-traffic-*  driving to his left  --  so these people make  
> left turns
> into the path of an lrv or into the side of same.       Not a few such
> accidents when Santa Clara began operations.
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> You and I are aware of such possibilities for accidents because we  
> are fans
> of rail - others don't have this embedded in memory.
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> Jim__Holland
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> I....Like....IKE__---__And....PCCs!
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> down...with...pantographs.......
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> UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!
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