John Bruce Wrote:
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> 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?

That's not what the requirement was prior to the revision.

> No rule
> has a "when you get around to it" provision.

Of course not, and that's not what was claimed or stated. Rule revisions go into effect to the time they are issued or at the "effective time" stated in the revision. GCOR Rule 1.3.2 applies, and a crew that goes on duty before a rule revision is issued, is not bound by it.

> 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.

You've made two errors here. First, I never expect anyone else to do what I might do, and two, in the instance you cite, it would've been the conductor, not the engineer, "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.

I don't agree, simply because if "rules are habitually ignored" as you claim, collision and accidents would run rampant on Metrolink, and that isn't the case.

> But don't you agree the rules are
> written in blood?

Nope. It's a catch phrase.