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

["Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au>]

Dave Malcolm <keithm@happy.dca.gov.au> wrote in message
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> In article <3810f811@nap-ns1> "Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au> writes:
> >From: "Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au>
> >Subject: Re: level crossing near misses, was Re: problems at ringwood
> >Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:05:42 +1000
>
>
> >Michael Kurkowski <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in message
> >news:8E67C7EC3telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net...
> >> Dave Malcolm said in message <keithm.365.380FFDAE@happy.dca.gov.au>, I
> >> therefore quote:
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Why feel sorry for an inconsiderate, impatient person? If you take the
> >> >risk you've got to accept the consiquenses. I would feel sorry for
> >> >family and friends though.
> >>
> >>
> >> You took my words straight out of my keyboard :)
> >>
> >> Dead is dead, it's nothing, people die every day. But, yes, I do feel
> >sorry
> >> for the relatives and friends of the person involved in the accident.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Michael
> >Dave and Michael should actually sit back and read what they have written
> >about death,because I think they have both been to Kennet arrogance
> >school,or perhaps its just youth,and being male,the largest group of the
> >population statistically likely to be killed in a road accident pumping
> >there gums.
> >Do you know that about 37 years ago my dad and the rest of us in the car
> >where a split second from being cleaned up by the Rail motor on the up
from
> >Daylesford at a wig wag crossing.
> >The grass was long,the weather was fine the wig wag was working and Dad
got
> >the brakes on in the Austin A40 just enough to miss the motor. It was
very
> >very close and I still remember it to this day,vividly.We where all very
> >shit scared.
> >IM(H)O boom gates are designed to protect trains from road vehicles,which
in
> >this day is flawed logic
> >A program started in the 1950s in Vic. should be fast tracked(no pun
> >intended) and that program is the grade separation of road and rail in as
> >many locations as possible and hang the cost.
> >Failing this xings with booms that come down stopping road traffic under
> >failure conditions should be redesigned to stop rail traffic from
entering
> >the crossing,rather than road traffic sitting and sitting and sitting.
> >The way things are today is a poor substitute for an efficient traffic
> >control system.
> >Lineman
>
>
> I know exactly what I have written. I don't feel sorry at all for some one
who
> dies doing somthing stupid. If you get hit on a level crossing you
shouldn'
> t have been on it, and if you are you are breaking the law also. it
doesn't
> take long to stop and look.
>
> Dave Malcolm
Whate'ver.
Lineman