The 11-foot-8 of railroad crossings

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures) 04/08/2019 at 13:02 • Filed to: Ashland

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Somehow this keeps happening

This one’s next level

And the inevitable:

Is there a car stuck on the tracks right now? See for yourself

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 13:08

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What are train brakes made of?

Azrek > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 13:11

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I love stuff like this. There is a really nice rum and whiskey bar I goto in StPete, FL. Outside is a terrible table and 1 chair. That is mine. I sit there with a really good glass of rum and watch traffic.
At that corner is a one lane road going east, but on the far side of the 3 lane road is a bike land with raised concrete. If you can see where this is going you are better than all the visitors to town.
So folks will turn left and think the bike lane is the right lane...and crash into the narrow concrete. My loud laughter will echo down the street...so if I am suddenly killed at this pub by a slightly wrecked Toyota, you know why. 

Berang > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 13:11

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It’s really not that weird that drivers would steer their vehicles into black nothing ness when there is well illuminated pavement to either side of it.

Berang > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/08/2019 at 13:12

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Stalled car s.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 04/08/2019 at 13:13

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Contact patch is like less than an inch of steel on steel. And the damn thing weighs a million tons. So the brakes are perfectly capable of locking up the wheels, but that wouldn’t really help any in slowing down the vehicle as then you would just have steel skidding and sparking everywhere. 

412GTI > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 13:16

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Wild. That was very entertaining. Makes you wonder if that’s just a really bad intersection design or if we should have continuous driving tests/standards. 

The Ghost of Oppo > Berang 04/08/2019 at 13:26

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Pffft, who looks where they drive?

HammerheadFistpunch > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 13:50

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I realize this is still mostly on the dummies that can’t drive, but part of the blame certainly lies in the design of this intersection. painting lines that go all the way through the intersection would help, as would erecting some barrier s to help people see that its a crossing at night.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 13:59

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this has some solid WTF. Guy cant park, car catches on fire where he backs into the other car, guy gets out and acts like its just another day.

Roundbadge > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 14:04

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We have a similar issue at one of our crossings.

Westbound cars on Broad Blvd that intend to turn right onto the Rt 8 on-ramp continually turn onto the train tracks instead. It’s happened 7 or 8 times in the past 5 years.

https://www.ohio.com/article/20150708/NEWS/307089092

The above article attributes the error to GPS, but even locals do it. They’ve tried signs but that hasn’t proved effective at all. To be fair, the signs are kind of innocuous.

LOREM IPSUM > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 14:14

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Dead simple way to fix this. Use something like your standard railroad crossing arms, but have them blocking the tracks and only raise them when the train is actually approaching. 

LOREM IPSUM > OPPOsaurus WRX 04/08/2019 at 14:22

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Petty sure there was something wrong with his car before he even hit the other car. Fairly sizable plume, just as he began reversing. Will give them the benefit of the doubt and say CO poisoning.

facw > LOREM IPSUM 04/08/2019 at 14:26

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That might confuse people too, but I bet you could do something.

You could also fill in the area around the tracks so cars wouldn’t immediately get stuck if they turned onto the tracks (put in a small curb and give the platform a texture so the car knows they’ve done something wrong, and hopefully don’t keep driving).

Urambo Tauro > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 14:29

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It’s almost like the road markings mean something.

shop-teacher > Dusty Ventures 04/08/2019 at 14:33

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There’s a similar (but not nearly as bad) inter s ection near my house. A couple months ago a disoriented 90+ year old woman was pulled out of her car by bystanders about 30 seconds before her car got hit.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Berang 04/09/2019 at 06:28

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Yup, black nothingness with two shiny steel rails and highly visible railway ties running between them illuminated by your headlights!