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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
What would you consider to be an appropriate speed for the LRT through downtown and how does that compare to their current limit?
Also, has there ever been a pedestrian-train collision where the LRT was at fault and if so, was the speed of the train determined to be a factor?
Pedestrian-train collisions are not accidents. They are overwhelming due to a pedestrian making the conscious decision to either ignore or defeat methods in place to prevent them from happening. In this case it would appear that it was someone who did not know how to cross the tracks properly.
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The fault question troubles me because an accident is exactly what it is an accident. A human being is faulty, when designing systems that humans interface with you have to account that humans aren’t reliable actors.
So we can say it wasn’t the trains fault and the human shouldn’t have been there but that isn’t the right question to ask. It’s are there things that can be changed in the design that don’t affect function that could reduce risk of incidents.