Re: Just Another (Different) Thought
Author: Freericks
Date: 11-05-2009 - 15:38
Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> Dragoman Wrote:
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> > If you operate trains on tracks that are
> > positioned in such a way that crossing or
> walking
> > along the ROW is the most convenient way to get
> > from one part of town to another, and you know
> > from experience that people actually do so,
> don't
> > you have a legal - or at least or moral -
> > obligation to seal it off? Isn't every life,
> even
> > perhaps the not-so-fittest, worth the expense
> of
> > such precautions?
>
>
> If you operate cars or trucks on roads that are
> positioned in such a way that crossing or walking
> along the road is the most convenient way to get
> from one part of town to another, and you know
> from experience that people actually do so, don't
> you have a legal - or at least or moral -
> obligation to seal it off? Isn't every life, even
> perhaps the not-so-fittest, worth the expense of
> such precautions?
>
> Doesn't the above statement sound completely
> absurd when applied to roads (not freeways)? Are
> you suggesting all roads should be fenced also?
>
> How about just staying off the tracks!
Graham,
Thank you for posting exactly what I was thinking. I could not have said it better.
Charles