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Not wanting to discredit Innes' quick thinking. Though this kind of incident does show the danger of policy favouring roads and more driving over mass transit/
by jeza 16y ago
Not wanting to discredit Innes' quick thinking. Though this kind of incident does show the danger of policy favouring roads and more driving over mass transit/public transportation. The greater the number of cars on the road, the greater the odds that someone will have a lapse of concentration, consciousness or make some kind of error. It was lucky that someone was able to intervene in this instance, but in other instances there's nothing much anyone could do. Short of designing cars that stop when the driver is unconscious (trains have had technology to ensure the driver is conscious for some decades now).
- Tichy 16y agoThat's why I don't like driving: because it is other people's mistakes that can destroy my life.
- jonhendry 16y agoOn mass transit, you only have to watch out for the nutters who shove people in front of oncoming trains. :) (I'm a big fan of public transit, and use it every day. But I always look around me when the train is approaching, or get my back to the wall.)
- Tichy 16y agoSame here - probably too much paranoia, but then again it does not cost much to stick to the platform wall :-)
- jeza 16y agoNot really a problem in this part of the world. Though I do like to stand a safe distance from the edge as a train rolls in. There have been a few incidents where mothers with prams forgot to put brakes on the pram has rolled onto the track as train came on. Though both instances I recall had a lucky ending. It doesn't help that the platforms which were build in the days when railways were fully staffed are built slopping towards the track for drainage.