Fuckall with that, there’s no good reason for a freight train to fucking park on the tracks and block multiple intersections for over half an hour.
Like fuck, the train finally moved and is clear now for the past 10 minutes or so, but they still haven’t raised the caution gates, so everyone is just driving around the lowered arms right now.
I imagine the rail system existed before firetrucks were a thing, though, not sure where you’re from. You have to hope they’d have a contingency plan for things like trains. Maybe a comms platform that told them not to go that way? (kinda like how Google maps will route you around a slower section of road)
I get it’s frustrating, but it’s definitely better than a hundred transport trucks
Oh, funny you’d compare it to just rerouting traffic.
The parked train literally and completely blocked off our entire community, for over half an hour. No detour whatsoever, if an actual emergency would have happened during that time, they would have had no other option than to send in a helicopter.
Again, train was probably there first, but is it the trains fault or the city planners for cutting off a community like that? I agree, that sounds incredibly dumb. I always joke and say “the people who make these decisions don’t actually live here” so they have no idea what they are doing, but it’s becoming less of a joke now
over_clox@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Including our police and fire department?
Fuckall with that, there’s no good reason for a freight train to fucking park on the tracks and block multiple intersections for over half an hour.
Like fuck, the train finally moved and is clear now for the past 10 minutes or so, but they still haven’t raised the caution gates, so everyone is just driving around the lowered arms right now.
Shit’s fucked up yo.
Jtee@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I imagine the rail system existed before firetrucks were a thing, though, not sure where you’re from. You have to hope they’d have a contingency plan for things like trains. Maybe a comms platform that told them not to go that way? (kinda like how Google maps will route you around a slower section of road)
I get it’s frustrating, but it’s definitely better than a hundred transport trucks
over_clox@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Oh, funny you’d compare it to just rerouting traffic.
The parked train literally and completely blocked off our entire community, for over half an hour. No detour whatsoever, if an actual emergency would have happened during that time, they would have had no other option than to send in a helicopter.
Jtee@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Again, train was probably there first, but is it the trains fault or the city planners for cutting off a community like that? I agree, that sounds incredibly dumb. I always joke and say “the people who make these decisions don’t actually live here” so they have no idea what they are doing, but it’s becoming less of a joke now
over_clox@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
At least the transport trucks are moving and not fucking literally parked on the tracks and blocking all traffic…
Jtee@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I guess you’ve never driven on highway 401 lol