Re: Blame the Employees
Author: John Bruce
Date: 12-07-2008 - 07:47
OPRRMS, haven't people pointed out that the minor rewording of the new Metrolink rule had no effect on the requirement that the engineer slow immediately to 40 on passing the yellow? No rule has a "when you get around to it" provision. You yourself in a previous post said if it had been you, you'd have contacted the Lilac engineer by radio when it was clear he wasn't slowing down, and the engineer would also have been correct in pulling the emergency cord.
This wasn't the signal calling rule, but another rule was in fact ignored here. My point was, above, that no single rule solves everything, but if multiple rules are habitually ignored, as seems to be the case here, you get accidents. You seem not to agree. But don't you agree the rules are written in blood?