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Re: Updated BiLevel coaches ordered for GO Transit (pic) |
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Posted by Jersey Mike on Mon Jun 4 01:23:04 2012, in response to Re: Updated BiLevel coaches ordered for GO Transit (pic), posted by WillD on Sun Jun 3 23:11:54 2012. Until they hit something.By your logic aircraft should be built to survive crash landings in a forest because they don't do so well when they hit something either. The whole point of a rare event is that you don't have to allocate substantial resources to defend against it because the costs will quickly outweigh the benefits. If you forget this important piece of information then you might s well start wrapping triains in 16 inches of lead to protect them nuclear fallous, because if you don;t, think of the children. It is unfortunate you have so low an opinion of railroad professionals' abilities and value that not only do you think them incapable of properly arranging a trainset, but you'd sacrifice their lives in accidents where fatalities of both passengers and crew members can be avoided through the use of adequate signalling and properly designed rolling stock. I don't care how competent a trainman is, he or she can't insert cars in the middle of a trainset faster than sticking a car on the end of the trainset unless they have some sort of magical superpower. Can you honestly not tell the difference between a stack and a queue? Re preventing deaths, I know you love reminding us all to think of the children, but I am going to remind you that nobody has a right to demand that an extraordinary proportion of public tax dollars be used to safeguard their lives. When rail vehicles are many times safer than our public highway, rail users simply have no right to complain that they are being treated unfairly. Fancy pants railcar designs cost more and are less flexible than traditional designs, plain and simple. Take your spend first and ask questions later mentality over to the EU and see how well they're doing with it. |
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