Another light rail near-miss revealed as launch day nears

What kind of “advice” is needed? I’m really curious to find what may have been omitted seeing as their are door chimes and stop announcements etc. I don’t recall ever being anywhere that has had any more than that.

Population density of Gent is 1700 per square kilometre while Canberra is paltry 443.

This is the same reason why light rail will be a disaster in Canberra.

And what is the population density of the corridor, especially Flemmington Rd and Northborne Ave. certainly higher than the act average which is why stage 1 will work. Though stage 2 I have my doubts, would work if it went down towards Kingston rather than Woden.

They have bells and horns here too.

The issue would be when do they get used. Bells normally in high pedestrian areas when taking off as a gentle warning (which I’ve heard at Gungahlin) and horn for the more serious hey stupid warning.

As to this issue who knows what the driver was thinking, maybe they thought the guys knew what they were doing and would keep away, who really knows.

One thing is for sure the person that nearly stepped out owes his mate a beer or two. And if he got hit only him to blame for being so stupid to not look and for being there in the first place. It seems they were not lightrail workers but workers from a construction site across the road who were cutting across Northborne including climbing over the rope barrier and then not looking when crossing the tracks.

Oh here is a link to the population densities in the ACT. And look at that it is over 2000 per km2 over much of stage 1! Who would have thought hey?

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Previousproducts/3218.0Main%20Features552014-15?opendocument&tabname=Summary&prodno=3218.0&issue=2014-15&num=&view=

Well, you tell me what the “corridor density is and why “it will work”.

Only people who are travelling to Canberra city (and perhaps stops in between) are likely to use the tram and there may be reasons why they will take their car instead.

The whole project has been done “arse about face” – very much “build it and they will come”. All of this because of one man’s bargain. Power certainly corrupts.

I don’t think Palmerston and Harrison could be said to be in the corridor, really.

We don’t get ice in this ACT all that often. For ice to form it needs to be freezing cold and wet.

And besides modern light tail has excellent traction control plus of course they have the ancient solution of dropping sand onto the rails for grip.

Whilst not a full on fence, if you look there are barriers with a rope to the side of the tracks.

And as someone in the Canberra times article pointed out these workers would appear to be workers from one of the building construction sites taking a short cut across the tracks which means they would have had to climb over the barrier.

My point even if you build a barrier people will climb over it if they are desperate enough to take a short cut.

And if we are going to build a fence for light rail why not a fence along all roads, they are just as dangerous. Only need to look at the road death stats in Canberra pedestrians make up more than 40% of all road deaths. Bloody dangerous then roads.

There are thousands more road vehicles that trams. Who writes your script, JC?

In the last month there has been one reported tram / pedestrian hit yet I don’t recall any car / pedestrian hit being in the news.

There will be workmen along the tram track every day for its short life sorting out its problems so expect more “near misses”.

Mine is the script of common sense, not the script of chicken little. Oh something new, the sky is falling the sky is falling, ice, frost leaves are gonna cause it to skid quick let’s get rid of it because I don’t agree with it. You know the script.

Oh and a pedestrian gets hit almost daily in Canberra by road vehicles with 4-5 deaths a year. Unless there is a death you won’t hear it in the news. Unlike lightrail which is flavour of the day by the chicken littlists, but of course should be in the news to help educate the dumb Sheepies to cross the road and tracks safely and to umm shock horror look.

All Hail the Tram!