[PRCo] Re: Portland Green Line

[Joshua Dunfield]

2009/9/19 Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>:
> Yes; these low cars eliminate ramps and lifts but at what cost
> in both $$$ and $afety?

Offhand, this strikes me as similar to hand-wringing about airliner
crashes, which, in effect, never happen.  (Though I doubt the adage
about being more likely to die driving to the airport than in the
plane applies to me, since I ride the bus—well, three buses and a
train, but who's counting.)

Anyway, if making transit safer means making it more inconvenient, it
may actually cause more people to die, because more of them will
drive, which is a higher-risk activity than riding transit.

That said, if there were a lot of side-impact collisions, you might
have a point.  But in LRT crashes, isn't it usually the *other*
vehicle that gets hit on the side?

-j.