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                   World's most dangerous rail road crossings
                                        
Fellow reader Jerry Supe (who I know of from FAU (Florida Atlantic
University) [1]; he's also a friend of Mark's [2]) sent me the following
about the rail road crossing picture [3]:

> The CSX crossings in Boca are notoriously dangerous. They have been mucking
> with them for 10 years and they still don't work right. I remember riding
> Tri-Rail many times and seeing the arms up like that. The conductor would
> get off the train prior to the crossing and act as a flagman for oncoming
> traffic. In fact, many crossings don't work right and CSX has been very lax
> in addressing the problem. I suspect part of the issue is the harsh
> weather, which seems to affect the signaling systems after heavy
> thunderstorms. There doesn't seem to be any redundancy in their system to
> contend for this.
> 

How nice.

[1] http://www.fau.edu/
[2] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/06/04.2

Email author at sean@conman.org

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