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I'm curious if the "metro option" that VRE and MARC use is something that VRE and MARC paid for. It obviously would be payment for an estimated amount since there was no accountability for who used it. Or if it was just something they all did to be nice to each other.

Can’t be that many VRE or MARC riders without a SmartTrip card. It's not that they don't have smart trip cards. That majority probably do have smart trip cards. It's that they will have to pay for the trip. which has always been a freebie through the emergency gate. That said, those people who only...

This will presumably affect MARC since they do the same thing. This is going to infuriate a lot of people! I understand the logistical problem though. WMATA is locking down the emergency gates since they're flagrantly abused by faregate jumpers. I can't see any reasonable and functional solution thr...

Sounds like the contractor held themselves to the same standard that WMATA employees hold themselves to...

Re: Metro secrets revealed

 by MCL1981 ¦  Thu May 24, 2018 8:55 am ¦  Forum: DC - Maryland - Virginia Area Passenger Rail: MTA(MARC), VRE, WMATA(Metro) ¦  Topic: Metro secrets revealed ¦  Replies: 2 ¦  Views: 2736

Typical ATU... distract from ongoing deplorable conduct by their personnel with a fluff piece telling people "secrets" that are actually commonly known basic things. Up next, ATU suggests passengers not forget to breath while wile waiting for their train that is delayed due to ATU worker i...

Re: Excessive horn penalties??

 by MCL1981 ¦  Fri May 18, 2018 5:51 am ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: Excessive horn penalties?? ¦  Replies: 13 ¦  Views: 7889

LOL. It's ironic that the people who make the most ignorant complaints happen to be the most hypocritical offenders.

Re: Advance Safety Drones

 by MCL1981 ¦  Thu May 17, 2018 9:33 am ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Collision Prevention: drones, alerts, gates ¦  Replies: 74 ¦  Views: 29538

Phalanx type vehicle security barriers would not be appropriate for grade crossings. They would trap vehicles on the tracks. Nobody is trying to crash a truck loaded with fertilizer through a grade crossing. Those would be incredibly inappropriate and wasteful. In fact any immovable barrier would be...

Re: Advance Safety Drones

 by MCL1981 ¦  Thu May 17, 2018 5:09 am ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Collision Prevention: drones, alerts, gates ¦  Replies: 74 ¦  Views: 29538

That would not prevent a single thing. That accident happened because the driver was inattentive to the obvious. A sign wouldn't change that which is already obvious and being neglected.

Frederick County (MD) got about 6 inches of rain in 2 hours last night. It was pretty nuts. Lots of flash flooding and swift water rescues all evening. MARC Train 879 got caught in a flash flood just south of Brunswick. The water was coming up so fast and so high, the riders had to take shelter on t...

Re: Advance Safety Drones

 by MCL1981 ¦  Tue May 15, 2018 12:47 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Collision Prevention: drones, alerts, gates ¦  Replies: 74 ¦  Views: 29538

Ok, good point.

Re: Advance Safety Drones

 by MCL1981 ¦  Tue May 15, 2018 11:58 am ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Collision Prevention: drones, alerts, gates ¦  Replies: 74 ¦  Views: 29538

That is an example of money being spent on more effective tactics!

Of course my personal opinion is a little more harsh. Save their money. Thinning of the herd has been working effectively in nature for millions of years. Why stop it.

Re: Advance Safety Drones

 by MCL1981 ¦  Tue May 15, 2018 8:41 am ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Collision Prevention: drones, alerts, gates ¦  Replies: 74 ¦  Views: 29538

I'm not sure how the logistics of this are escaping you all. Morons drive their vehicles around gates seconds before a train hits them . Putting up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cameras (or drones), infrastructure, and personnel is not and cannot prevent that collision from happening. Tha...

Re: Advance Safety Drones

 by MCL1981 ¦  Sun May 13, 2018 8:48 am ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Collision Prevention: drones, alerts, gates ¦  Replies: 74 ¦  Views: 29538

Plus the cost of 4G service to each unit. Plus the cost of a few thousand new employees to monitor these useless cameras all day. Not a single grade crossing collisions will be prevented. Not a single life will be saved. And it will simply increase the railroad's liability in a lawsuit. It's a horri...

Re: Advance Safety Drones

 by MCL1981 ¦  Mon May 07, 2018 11:34 am ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Collision Prevention: drones, alerts, gates ¦  Replies: 74 ¦  Views: 29538

Most collisions aren't vehicles stuck on the tracks. They're dumbasses that just drive around the gates into the path of train. They cannot be detected, and there is no stopping a train in that amount of time. Exercise in futility. State and federal law should simply prohibit civil lawsuits when the...

Re: Advance Safety Drones

 by MCL1981 ¦  Mon May 07, 2018 6:34 am ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Collision Prevention: drones, alerts, gates ¦  Replies: 74 ¦  Views: 29538

Oh sure. And who exactly is going to monitor 100,000 security cameras all day and all night? That sounds neat, but it is technologically, logistically, and practically ludicrous. People are going to drive their cars in front of moving trains. There is nothing that will stop that or prevent the colli...

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