Are trains really “accidents waiting to happen”?

This is a train track. Trains move on it. Lights flash and gates close when it’s about to come. This is the point where you stop.

Just as with the recent abortion “debate”, the real questions are ones concerning ignorance and education — not ones concerning digging underpasses and wasting more money on helping badly organised people to catch trains.

We are all accidents waiting to happen, as someone clever once said. It sickens me that when someone is killed by a train, we get continual dedications to their character and the prettiest picture we can find of them — and not a mention of the train driver who’s been scarred for life by their stupidity.

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