Holy shit!!

[PepperElf]

Interstate : in the form I-## (1?-2 digits). Even numbers run E-W, odds run N-S. Crosses a state line at some point. Seldom, if ever, have lights.

I've seen it once. Well, not exactly lights. Well, more like a mandatory toll booth separating the toll portion from a free portion.

(yes, I was thinking 'doctor 10' when I wrote that)

[drunkenwildmage]

This happens more often than it should on a curve on I-25 over in the UNM/Sunport area. Would it suprise anyone that the idiot is always drunk?



Traffic lights on a highway? I've never seen that before.

I-280,which runs between I-75 and I-80 in Ohio,used to have a traffic light on it AND a draw bridge on it .... The traffic light got replaced about 15 - 20 years ago.. the Draw bridge was replaced in the last 5 years.

[morgana]

My first husband killed someone that way.

She was pushing her bike in the highway between the town he lived in and the town I lived in. He never even saw her until the bike hit his windshield.

He was 19. She was 15.

Tragic.

[Pagan]

I was on my way to work one morning, and some idiot got hit by an Amtrak train Seems the guy was on the tracks, had his iPod going...and didn't hear the horns. I have tracks (Norfolk Southern and CSX) 5 and 10 miles from home...yet I can hear them. How the hell he couldn't hear the constant blast of horns, plus get the vibration from the locomotive bearing down on him, I don't know. Killed instantly.

We get some of those here, too. I have yet to figure out how they don't feel the train coming.

We also, out away from towns/cities where the crossings don't have gates, neighbors decide to cop a squat in their truck, one going each direction, and have a chat. Somehow managed to get hit by the Rail Runner. And one of the families sued the state that somehow it was the train's fault?

Not so sure he didn't hear him; people have used railroads to commit suicide before. I guess it depends on whether he was crossing the tracks, in which case it boils down to what Bujold called "death by stupidity", or walking along them, which would point to a deliberate act.

Well, yeah, it's a deliberate act, just not necessarily suicide. It's the easiest way to walk from one place to the next and not get lost in middle of big-ass, lightly populated New Mexico.

[greek_jester]

Well, yeah, it's a deliberate act, just not necessarily suicide. It's the easiest way to walk from one place to the next and not get lost in middle of big-ass, lightly populated New Mexico.

But can't they walk beside the track, rather than on it? That way they don't get lost, but they don't get pancaked either.

[Andara Bledin]

But can't they walk beside the track, rather than on it? That way they don't get lost, but they don't get pancaked either.

Depends on the tracks.

I've got tracks that I've walked as a shortcut (and safety issue due to no sidewalks in an industrial area), and in some places the brush grows up right to the edge of the tracks.

^-.-^

[Pagan]

But can't they walk beside the track, rather than on it? That way they don't get lost, but they don't get pancaked either.

You're assuming they're bright enough and/or sober enough to figure this out. We've got a big problem with drunks doing stupid things in the state.

Depends on the tracks.

I've got tracks that I've walked as a shortcut (and safety issue due to no sidewalks in an industrial area), and in some places the brush grows up right to the edge of the tracks.

^-.-^

That's not a problem here. The only place you get any sort of vegetation close to the tracks is in populated areas. Not way out in the desert.