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Originally Posted by Wormius
I don't have an answer. It's just an observation that along the 7th Ave corridor that trains are going at a pretty good clip by the time they approach crossings, as if they are fully expecting the light to change to green for them. If a pedestrian felt like they wanted to cross on the amber, and hesitated or something as the light turned red, a train would have no time to stop. Sure its the pedestrian at fault, it's just trains could maybe travel at a speed where braking could be performed to prevent hitting somebody.
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if you do that, you might as well not have trains at all.
nobody is going to take a train that runs at 10 km/h through every crossing.