Re: Safeworking Rules.

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

Here, here!!!
Bob.

The Railway Rasputin. <bob@fastlink.com.au> wrote in message
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> > In the trucking case we dont have any sort of rule which allows truckers
to go
> > thru traffic lights when they are red, even if the lights have failed ,
even
> > with the most extreme caution.
>
> Bulldust!
> So if the traffic light have failed and a Police officer (I'm being
> politicaly correct) directs you through you won't move?
> Its the same thing in our case it is the signaller.
> Ok if the traffic light fails at 4 am are you going to sit there for 2
> hours while you wait to get the thing fixed?
>
> > Its simply taken that the risk grossly outweighs the benefit.
>
> > In practice however its not a problem because traffic lights rarely fail
and
> > when they do they are promptly fixed.
> > No reason why the same cant apply to Rail signals .
>
> I'd like to see you sitting on a train for hours when you know that
> there is no real reason why you have to be there in the first place.
>
> rgds
> >
> > MD