Re: level crossing near misses, was Re: problems at ringwood

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

Neil Stalker <nstalker@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> The same things used to happen at a level crossing
> in the Brisbane suburb of Geebung. Because there
> was an intersection with traffic lights just 10m
> past the level crossing the cars had no choice but
> wait on the tracks, which is a very scary thing
> considering that the speed limit on the line there
> is 100km/h and a visibility of 30m down the line.
> Since then they finally fixed it by synchronising
> the traffic lights with the level crossing lights.
> I'm just wondering if there were any near misses
> with that particular one though.
>
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There used to be a big mess of traffic lights and level-crossings at
Yeerongpilly before they built the road bridges.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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