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Re: Updated BiLevel coaches ordered for GO Transit (pic) |
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Posted by WillD on Mon Jun 4 02:34:43 2012, in response to Re: Updated BiLevel coaches ordered for GO Transit (pic), posted by Jersey Mike on Mon Jun 4 01:23:04 2012. 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.Surely you don't need strawmen to make your argument. 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. Except that Metrolink's payouts for the Chatsworth crash are equal to their outlay for their PTC system. A one time capital expenditure trumps recurring legal costs added to the cost of replacing the equipment lost in whatever collision produced those payouts. 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? Nothing says there cannot be multiple cab cars along the length of a train. If you insist on adding cars for peak periods then add those cars ahead of the cab car and spot the train on the platform with the cab car of the off-peak portion at the middle of the platform. People will still be perfectly capable of walking forward or back through either portion of the train to the platform if you'd rather extend station dwell than pay for platforms of adequate length. 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. And nobody at all has a right to demand their hobby be catered to with the lives of passengers and train crew members. And again, what extraordinary proportion of public tax dollars? We're spending that money on the legal expenses when your beer-can like trains crash because your antiquated signal system cannot keep them apart. |
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