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You only need to look at a German rail road crossing to immediately see they are either extremely lazy or completely incompetent. The bars close, then there’s a
by tinus_hn 4y ago
You only need to look at a German rail road crossing to immediately see they are either extremely lazy or completely incompetent. The bars close, then there’s a 5 minutes wait, then a tiny train passes at about 75km/h, then they open. If there is a station next to the crossing, the bars close before the train is even at the station and remain closed while the train is stopped.
If the track would be used at anywhere near capacity the crossing would simply never open.
- vinay427 4y agoThis appears to be the case in Switzerland as well, or at least various intersections in multiple cities that I would be repeatedly stuck at while living there, so I'm not sure this is a fundamental problem. Level crossings aren't ideal for at-capacity tracks anyway, which is why they're usually avoided in urban environments.
- tinus_hn 4y agoComing from the Netherlands I know that this is a solvable problem if there are limits to the delays caused by the bars being shut. It’s just that if the company that sets this up doesn’t need to care, they don’t care.