New Death Train crushes another

In case you missed the news, the new Sound Transit Link light rail line, currently in test runs -- not even running for real yet, mind you -- just totalled a car at Martin Luther King Way S and S Myrtle Street. Fortunately, the motorist was only injured, and not killed.

As one of the people commenting on the linked article said, "I'd hoped sound transit [sic] would be taking cars off of the regions [sic] highways, but I didn't know they were going to do it one at a time!"

As I have said before, the reason they took up the streetcar tracks in the old days was because trains kill people when they run among the pedestrians and cars. They knew what they were doing when they switched to buses -- buses can swerve and brake suddenly, and trains cannot.

"Oh, but the driver of the car made an illegal turn," say the train apologists. Yes, the driver apparently did make an illegal turn -- as people do, every single day, without being crushed under the steel wheels of a massive implacable machine -- but now we have such a machine to kill illegal-turn-makers, a machine which exists only because our "progressive" citizens crave an emollient for their fevered psyches.

Posted: Thu - July 2, 2009 at 01:35 PM

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New Death Train crushes another

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