Re: [VIC] Level crossing accident: High St Reservoir

[Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au>]

The truck driver should be locked away. Having a truck licence he should 
know better than to sit his truck on the level crossing. I wonder if he 
sits his truck in the middle of a freeway in the same circumstances, same 
thing almost, really.

On the other side of things, knowing this intersection well since I used to 
live near it, it should have been grade separated years ago. In the late 
80's the government decided to adopt a "lets do it the cheaper way" 
approach, and spent years making modifications to this crossing, probably 
to a price close to that of simply putting the line under, and to this day, 
cars can still wait up to 30 minutes in Broadway during the peak to get 
across that crossing. Not only Broadway, but Spring Street as well, if you 
wanted to head into High Street in the up direction (toward the city).

One day someone will see the light and finally put the railway under that 
intersection. Knowing past attempts, it will take a fatality for it to 
happen. (i.e, statistics).

Sam Eades said on 20-Dec-1999 in <385DAA0C.D79EA89@yahoo.com>:

>This morning at about 0830, a down spark hit a truck which was crossing
>the High St lvel crossing. Apparently no one was injured, but it made a
>hell of a mess, the clean up didn't finish until 1145!
>
>Only the train involved was delayed.

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