Posted on 04/18/2018 5:46:36 PM PDT by Morgana
The Los Angeles Times reports that L.A. Countys homeless problem is worsening despite billions from tax measures. Rather than despite, they might have said because of, since the more taxpayer money is bestowed upon the homeless, the more will be drawn from around the country and the world. The situation is so bad that California trains have been slowed down by all the homeless people on the tracks:
Trains along the popular Capitol Corridor are running later than before, and homeless camps are partly to blame.
Rail officials say more people have trespassed on train tracks in the last year, forcing engineers at times to hit the brakes to avoid a possible crash and at times tragically unable to. Thats left trains loaded with commuters or freight grinding to a halt in the middle of nowhere.
If a person is killed by a train, it may be held in place for two to three hours as coroners, police and track inspectors do post-mortem work, officials said.
This slows down all the traffic behind. Just braking because someone wandering around the tracks seems likely to step on the rails requires a 10-minute wait while the engine is reset.
Homeless encampments have been sprouting like mushrooms in California, including along train tracks. If the state ever finishes its multi-$billion overrun high-speed rail boondoggle, they may have to rename it low-speed rail.
Fortunately, technology provides us with a possible solution.
This cant be helped. Homeless drug addicted vagrants are our new Sacred Cows.
Plus it would be appropriate if the LA Coloseum looked authentically in ruins like the real one in Rome.
emigrate = outflow
immigrate = inflow
Add old fashioned cow-catchers. Worked on the cows.
Why are they slowing down or stopping?
I thought Moonbeam wanted fast trains...
Put cow catchers on the front of the engines like the older engines had to brush aside unwanted obstructions.
just when you thought FR couldn’t get any uglier..
Technology already provided a solution, since 1830: The cowcatcher or cattle catcher was mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles on the track that might otherwise derail the train.
Put cow catchers back on the engine, and full speed ahead.
You’re right, just a slip of the pinkie and of the mind.
Nearly 50,000 people have lost their lives between 2015 and 2017 on railway tracks after being hit by trains, according to official data from the Indian Railways. Deaths on railway tracks occur due to trespassing, violating safety and cautionary instructions, avoiding over-bridges, using mobile phones and other electronic gadgets when crossing railway tracks.
That would be an average of about 68 deaths per day, or 2.8 deaths per hour, of every hour, every day, for years.
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