It may be unsafe, but I'm important

As they say, ya cant fix stupid... 

Well just make the gates go up AFTER The lights stop flashing ... problem solved lol

That's a great law, in my opinion!

Not one vote against... Amazing!

And when the first person drives into a train on the second track and dies, the state will feel the bite for this, big time. Because along with the railroad, the people who built the car and processed the gas being burned (you know how it goes, everyone except the driver themself), the family will sue the heck out of the state as well for passing the law that 'allowed' the driver to do this.

Frankly, I can see this being overturned on a federal level or being lobbied against by RR unions.

Wow, a moment of silence for the death of common sense please.

 

Paul

To quote HL Mencken, whom as I get older I am starting to sound like more and more "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American People"

As RICK O has in his AVATAR,

 

"You can race a train, just remember that a train wins all ties."

That is an easy fix-just change the timing of the gates and lights.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if another train is coming on another track, unless it hits the timing circuit to set the gates off, wouldn't the gates just stay down? If it's close enough to hit the first car under the gates, I would think it would've tripped the circuit to keep them down.

May we assume said Senator will be the first to test the new law..............hopefully on a four-track crossing?

Railroads should set the gates to go up 30 seconds after the lights quit flashing.

Honestly the track in his district are all a minimum of 2 (UP out over Salt Lake causeway) or 3 and some 4 where the UP and Frontrunner commuter rail run North south 

I was on an Amtrak that hit and killed a pedestrian.  My train was heading south and passing a north bound freight.  The freight cleared the crossing.  The lady walked around the gates as soon as the freight passed the crossing and directly into the path of my train.  The crossing lights were flashing and the gates were down.  This crossing has a gate guarding a heavily traveled side walk in addition to the normal street gates.

 

Giving people legal permission to ignore the flashing lights and gates is just stupid.  You save a couple of seconds and lose a lifetime.  

 

Joe

 

 

 

 

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e pushed the bill because a constituent complained he received a ticket for going through a crossing after gates were rising, but before flashing lights stopped. Jenkins admitted he has done the same thing often, and said it should be allowed.

 

By that logic, you should call and tell him you got a speeding ticket, and if he's also sped, he should introduce a bill to make speeding legal. 

Repeat for every dumb thing you can think of.

How long will stop signs last? Cuz I bet he's rolled through one of those too.

What idiotic logic.

Oh, the huge manatee!

All this does is give the second car in line an excuse to start blasting his horn when the first car doesn't move fast enough when the gates go up.  I use to sell newspapers sunday mornings at a dunkin donuts that was next to a 2 track crossing.  Needless to say I spent a lot of time watching impatient people try stupid stuff.  Multiple times I'd see someone try to speed through when the gates were coming down and more often they'd get a nice scrape on their paint job when the gate came down on top of them.

Maybe politicians should be instructed on train signal circuits and how they are activated!!!!

Solution!.....park the politician in front of the firing squad - BOOM !

Unreal, just unreal and these people get PAID for this kind of thinking!!!!

 

Art

Anybody who things the elected politicians are smarter than they are, and could do a

better job...please take note.

French had the right idea.....whack !....clunk !

Doesn't say much for the people that elected them in the first place...
On Mar 14, 2015 9:27 AM, "O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum" <alerts@hoop.la>
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They're not being stupid on someone else's dime. We're paying people to think this way. And it's not exclusive to State politics. I thought this was going to be about "no horn blowing" at intersections. That would be icing on the cake.

 

Gilly

Most politicians have the intellect of a 7th grader, beats working.  A few years ago, in Derry, Pa., in western Pa., a woman was crossing the NS double track main coming home from sopping. She had a baby in a stroller with some groceries and the stroller got stuck on the tracks. I guess it was too heavy to pick up and the groceries kept her from getting the baby out. A west bound freight rounded a curve about 1/4 mile away an killed both the mother and baby. Tragic ?? Yes but right next to this spot was a bridge to cross the tracks with a sidewalk. I have shot a lot of video at this place and know it. Thy put a fence up before but people cut holes in it so they could cross the tracks, the cops issued tickets but the mayor told them to stop-too many complaints.  You just can't fix stupid !!

 

Well actually on the North-South tracks in his district it is a no horn zone as well

"natural selection"

Guillotine!  One swish and it is done!!!  

Chris,

   Utah does have it's share of crazy politicians, we have more than a few here in Pa also.  Got to admit this guy borders on insane.

PCRR/Dave