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> You could say the same thing about subways, but subways can't get into car accidents in the first place. Trams can. But it still happens only rarely (at leas
by ygra 10y ago
> You could say the same thing about subways, but subways can't get into car accidents in the first place.
Trams can. But it still happens only rarely (at least in my home town. You can still fall back to normal buses in that case as a replacement until the crash is sorted and cleaned up.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoOkay, story time. So a friend of mine is a tram driver. He fondly recalls the time when some idiot had parked across the tram line to go inside a store. Much use of the horn got said idiot out, but he didn't see the problem; "Why don't you just drive around me?" he shouted. My friend shouted back "Why don't you come up here and try that?" The idiot actually came up, sat down in the tram driver's seat, and then promptly deflated as he realised there is no steering wheel, a tram runs on tracks. He got up, with a very long face, and left to move his car to the tune of laughter from passengers and bystanders.
- caoilte 10y agoThat's awesome. Where was it?
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoThis was in Norway, Trondheim.
- XVII 10y agoUnrelated: Lewis Trondheim is a brilliant comic artist.
- geezerjay 10y ago> You can still fall back to normal buses in that case This is only a possibility if those buses meet the height restrictions imposed by the elevated bus.
- majewsky 10y ago> Trams can. But it still happens only rarely As a data point, my local (German) tram operator reports an accident rate of once per 30,000-70,000 vehicle-kilometers, depending on the line. The highest accident rates occur, of course, on lines passing through high-density areas with small roads. Does anyone know the accident rate of cars?