Or Newport, VA, which isn't anywhere near an Acela!
Still, perhaps it's a bit early to decide it was suicide...
Or Newport, CA or Newport, OR either. :giggle:
And if you got passengers in the car then it should be attempted murder.
Which is why I added the ", DE" to the title of this thread. Because, being in a local newspaper, the article did not include the state in it's headline.
That's kind of like saying "Cities should take measures to stop traffic accidents or building fires within their own cities" - Amtrak does what it can. If anyone is determined to do anything, there's no easy way to stop them. Banks and military bases have security measures in place, but still things happen.
Though it's probably not really the reason here, when the Acelas fly by on a center track, I've always thought how quiet they approach and how little notice that horn gives you. Anyone trespassing without suicidal thoughts would have very little time to get out of the way at those speeds.
They police the right of way pretty regularly and have installed heavy duty fences in some parts to discourage trespassers just looking to cross. A teenage girl was hit where kids had cut a hole in a chain link fence a couple of years ago and used the NEC tracks north of Baltimore as a shortcut. Amtrak put up an iron fence in response.
Add more steel fences. Not just iron, at least some carbon steel. No backing down from trespassers, especially when it compromises safety.
Can you explain the solving itself part of that statement?
Solves itself? As in the trespassers get themselves killed?
Oh I see. And the problems of train crew trauma, public safety teams and law enforcement being called out, train delays, etc etc are all magically solved - all we have to do is adopt that callous attitude.
And carbon steel fences will stop trespasser problem? Guess what, people looking for suicide or just shortcuts can cross rail tracks from platforms too.
None of those will be solved by constructing a thousand miles of "impenetrable" barrier.
That is a legitimate point. However, it does not prove your point which preceded my comment, that the problem is self-solving, which implied that the only problem was the deaths of the people.
