[PRCo] Re: Wabash Tunnel in Operation

[Joshua Dunfield]

> On Jan 19, 2007, at 6:23 PM, trams2 at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > The lawyers have to make it safe for everyone, remember?   
> > Especially PennDOT lawyers.  People might run into each other and  
> > then claim that it's the state's (or Port Authority's) fault  
> > instead of their own.
> > The problem is that these people often prevail.
> >
> > Ed

It's not that unreasonable to think that people accustomed to "modern"
lane widths -- which is most people, except maybe the ones who drive
the Turnpike every day -- might well run into each other.  And blaming
the people involved doesn't un-maim or un-kill them, or their kids in
the back seat.  Nor does blaming those oh-so-villainous lawyers.

(I don't think it's that reasonable, either, risk management and all.
People slow down if it doesn't feel safe, and being in a tunnel with
narrow-by-modern-standards lanes, facing oncoming traffic, doesn't feel
particularly safe.)

Fred Schneider wrote:
> The SPEED BUMP cartoon tonight was particularly appropriate.   Man  
> walks down street and observes sign painted on law office window.    
> It reads:   "Peterson, Peterson, Peterson and Peterson.    ATTORNEYS  
> SPECIALIZING IN ENRICHING THE PETERSON FAMILY SINCE 1961."

That's right.  Lawyers should work for free (just like motormen).
Or is your point that they shouldn't work at all?

-j.