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Originally Posted by pylon
Let's just call a spade a spade.
The city was too cheap to design these right, and it's costing lives, regardless of if people are morons with their faces glued to their phones. It is a condition of society now, that posting the dessert you had at Swiss Chalet in your activity feed, over rides every other single thing in the world, because the world must know how awesome that dessert was, RIGHT NOW!
This stupidity has to be adapted to, because you are not going to change the masses.
The city was cheap asses, and now people are getting cut in half by trains, while hundreds of people get to watch and be traumatized for life. There is no other excuse for these horrid station designs.
You wanna run around and tout your city as world class.... Install world class infrastructure. Not train stations that belong in once horse towns.
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They were intentionally designed at grade. It wasn't necessarily a cost thing. Chinook used to have a non at grade crossing. This was a design choice to improve safety from crime. I think saying they are cheap isn't fair unless you want fully grade separated which carries its own problems related to economic isolation of communities
I think these choices are much more complicated then you make them out to be