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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sun Feb 8 10:14:25 2015, in response to Re: How Railroad Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash, posted by Jace on Fri Feb 6 23:26:18 2015. The design of infrastructure needs to be based on logic, not "feelings". If the probability of such an event as this is really so low that not more than one such event per century should be anticipated, then no major changes should be made to prevent such occurrences. Of course, we don't know an exact probability. Bill's idea of deflector ramps sounds like it would work on both underrunning and overrunning third rail, and could be installed inexpensively, so it is probably worth doing. But the idea that the "we have to do something" mentality is right should be rejected. |
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