Passenger Trains > MBTA: Driver Assaulted, Bus Crashes into Building

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/04/mbta_bus_slams.html?p1=News_links

What's this got to do with trains?

Things lpike this and the move to ultra high speed limits out west, and Tet no calls for 2 drivers in the cab. HMM redundant drivers over 65 mph?

This has got nothing to do with trains. It has to do with public surface transportation, a subject which many trainorders fans have an interest in and enjoy reading about.

toledopatch Wrote:
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> What's this got to do with trains?


Remember at one time. This thread use to be labeled.
Rail and Public Transit.

And many people on here. Use Buses to connect with Trains.

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

caseyjones Wrote:
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> This has got nothing to do with trains. It has to
> do with public surface transportation, a subject
> which many trainorders fans have an interest in
> and enjoy reading about.


Well, I enjoy reading about baseball and poker, too, so let's have threads about those things as well.

My objection is not that I found the MBTA bus-accident story uninteresting. The occasional post about the airline biz, presumably relevant since many of us fly to go on foaming vacations or because Amtrak competes with the airline shuttles in the NEC, shows up too. But where do we draw the line? This isn't busfoamers.com.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/12/11 06:03 by toledopatch.

I agree that the focus should be trains, but can't we digress to related topics once in awhile?.

toledopatch Wrote:
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> Well, I enjoy reading about baseball and poker,
> too, so let's have threads about those things as
> well.
>
> My objection is not that I found the MBTA
> bus-accident story uninteresting. The occasional
> post about the airline biz, presumably relevant
> since many of us fly to go on foaming vacations or
> because Amtrak competes with the airline shuttles
> in the NEC, shows up too. But where do we draw the
> line? This isn't busfoamers.com.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/12/11 09:07 by eminence_grise.

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eminence_grise Wrote:
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> I agree that the focus should be trains, but can't
> we digress to related topics once in awhile?.


Absolutely. "Once in a while." Just making the case that it shouldn't become routine.

And in the interest of cooperation, here's a follow-up link, because I actually first saw this story on boston.com and do find it interesting:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/04/_in_a_shocked_v.html?p1=News_links