[PRCo] Fw: More primitive, old-fashioned trolleys!

[Jim Holland]

wrote in message news:...
 > In article ,
 > billblomgren at hotmail.com wrote:
 >
 > > Well, the Charlotte light rail killed someone that was sitting on 
the tracks
 > > before it carried its first revenue passenger.
 > >
 > > The city council has apparently decided that they need to fence the 
whole
 > > right of way. That wouldn't have prevented the death, because he 
was sitting
 > > near a grade crossing.
 >
 >
 > The first several people killed by getting run over by Portland MAX 
trains
 > were on the right of way along I-84. To get there, they either had to
 > have walked across 6 lanes of high speed auto traffic, or crossed the
 > Union Pacific Railroad's fence, crossed the UP main line, scaled an 11
 > foot tall concrete retaining wall, climbed over the 6 foot tall chain 
link
 > fence at the top of the wall, and then dropped down onto the MAX tracks.
 > Or, they might have walked from a station platform past a number of 
signs
 > warning people not to walk on the tracks, but when the first one died 
they
 > hadn't even started public service yet, so I don't think the platforms
 > were even open for people to walk down to.
 >
 > Charlotte hasn't yet learned about the creativity of idiots in getting
 > themselves killed.
 >
 > --
 > -Glennl
 > e-mail hint: add 1 to quantity after gl to get 4317.

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Jim  Holland
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