crossposted from: https://feddit.it/post/29954054
Source and additional pics:
https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772
Also from the same thread:
For people who aren’t intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.
Edit: it looks like it was not “several miles” but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:
This is what you get when you build light rail at street level without adequate crossing barriers.
Seattle’s Link light rail was built through the city’s south side through the middle of Martin Luther King Junior Way South (“MLK”) with street level crossings for cars and pedestrians, for miles and miles, without any physical barriers like bollards or traditional railroad crossing gates, just flashing lights. Trains are hitting cars all the time here, and it’s incredibly easy for a car to drive right onto the tracks.
There has long been a need for a major safety improvement project to correct this, but Sound Transit is having major project funding problems lately regarding a new line being built, so we’re basically stuck with this problem for at least 20 more years.
We can also remove their license and implement stricter requirements. If they can’t drive it’s fine, we have a rail to ride to work!
We could just have higher standards for drivers…
While this person probably needs their license taken away, blaming drivers for unsafe infrastructure is not the answer.
When the infrastructure is only unsafe because the driver is a fucking moron it is.
Well, the drivers are by-and-large the ones who opposed properly funding the light rail’s initial construction, so I do still blame them.
The infrastructure should be better, but this is a really difficult mistake to make if you’re fit to drive
Not sure if “this is what you get”, something like this doesnt happen very often.
… man there’s no way you drive for long enough to get up that ramp without realizing ‘none of this sounds, feels, or looks right’.
Seems much more like a critical lack of awareness.