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- From: abc@banjo.concert.net (Alan B Clegg)
- Subject: Re: Highway 54 at 55 is open again.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.200359.9208@rock.concert.net>
- Sender: news@rock.concert.net
- Organization: Concert Network -- Internet Operations Group
- References: <1992Nov16.221304.9906@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <Bxv7xp.Cp2@unx.sas.com> <Bxv9nF.F7s@unx.sas.com>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:03:59 GMT
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- In article <Bxv9nF.F7s@unx.sas.com> sasjzs@vms.sas.com writes:
- >In article <Bxv7xp.Cp2@unx.sas.com>, sasbrb@rolypoly.unx.sas.com
- >(Brendan Bailey) writes:
-
- >>It also probably cost a LOT less than building a new and longer
- >trestle, but this was probably impossible without closing the train
- >>track for several months.
- >
- >This is exactly the reason. This ignores the fact that lights or
- >no lights, people are going to become impatient or careless. Its
- >a fact of physics that if the path of a car and a train never
- >cross, they can't hit one another. Arguments about personal
- >responsibility and natural select not withstanding.
-
- The first time I saw that the road was open, I watched a person pull out
- from about 7th in line waiting at the flashing-gates and drive right
- through the crossing. The only justice in the world would have allowed
- the train to crush them as an example. Fortunately for the driver, the
- world is not just.
-
- -abc
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