by Martin Baumann
What maximum speed do Metrolink normally run at and what speed are the BNSF units geared for?
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Tadman wrote:There's 451 street grade crossings on all of Metrolink. For $19m, you could hire 158 cops. Each cop rotates between 3 crossings per day and writes all kinds of tickets.So based on those figures, for over 90% of the time there is no cop on duty on any particular crossing, which won't exactly reduce the chances of an accident by a great deal.
jt42cwr wrote:I disagree. There is almost no traffic midnight-5am, so we can throw that out. You likely have triple the traffic at rush hour, so we can concentrate on those times. I don't know if police contracts allow for split shifts but if they do, you'd have a nice way to cover two four-hour shifts, one at each rush. Even if there are no stats on car/traffic frequency over crossings, one could look at a timetable and determine the hot times for each crossing. Further, a few crossings could be eliminated -those with dual gates or those along trackage with low speeds or adjacent to stations.Tadman wrote:There's 451 street grade crossings on all of Metrolink. For $19m, you could hire 158 cops. Each cop rotates between 3 crossings per day and writes all kinds of tickets.So based on those figures, for over 90% of the time there is no cop on duty on any particular crossing, which won't exactly reduce the chances of an accident by a great deal.