Again, the train will always win

[quietann]

It happened again; I was late to work because some person got hit by a train. This time it was in Lawrence (2 stops before mine), and this time it appears to have been fatal. It took the T about an hour to figure out what to do about all the waiting passengers; they stopped a northbound train at Andover and sent it back towards Boston to pick everyone up.

The problem with trains is that they run on tracks, and if something happens to or on the tracks, everything gets screwed up.

Quote from this entry: "Do not attempt to occupy a space that is about to be occupied by a moving train. The train will win, even if you get there first. And everyone on the train will be very unhappy and late to work."

Comments

[scliff.livejournal.com]

In the San Francisco Bay Area, almost all commuter train vs. pedestrian accidents are suicides. The suicides themselves seem tragic, and the incidents are annoying as hell to passengers, but the train conductors effectively become victims of the trauma.

There are lots of ways to leave this world. Even if you believe people have the right to end their own lives (and I do), that way is just wrong.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

This was just someone running to beat the train, which is what usually causes these accidents in Boston and surrounding areas. A few years ago, though, some poor soul said his final "fuck off!" to the world by jumping in front of a Red Line subway at South Station during rush hour. I was working at Sandstorm at the time, and could look out the window to the Park Street stop, where there were thousands of stranded commuters filling the sidewalks and in fact all of Tremont Street.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

ever see the german film, "zuckerbaby"?

[hawkegirl.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*