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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
I thought of that too.
Make the lights begin flashing a few seconds earlier. Have some sort of recorded voice come over the speakers saying "gates locking in ten seconds, clear the path", giving everyone enough time to get out of the way
Alternatively, only have the gates lock from the outside
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Still wouldn't work. Just look at pedestrians downtown with the countdown timers, if you had something like a locking gate on any given intersection downtown there would be dozens of fatalities per day....people are stupid and a countdown timer actually makes things riskier. Combine that with a locking gate and it's a recipe for disaster.
Edit: Not to mention the logistics of it. If you did have a countdown timer on the tracks, where would it be triggered? How would it deal with the varying speed of each incoming/outgoing train? How would it be able to lock people from going onto the tracks but still let people off of the tracks? Could it prevent another clueless person from walking onto the tracks through the gate that the other person just opened from the other side? What about the people wearing headphones? Or the people with their heads buried in their phones...the current flashing lights and sounds don't always prevent this, so how could something else do it? You can only realistically do so much to prevent stupid from happening.