Also a way to avoid grade crossing accidents

This evening, on the way home from work, I was waiting with my bike at the Castro Street grade crossing here in Mountain View, just as it was time for the two express Bullets that don’t stop in Mountain View to pass - it was about 5:20pm. When the northbound train approached, I noticed that the engineer was really leaning on his horn. He must have been on it at least from the CA-85 overpass through the station and the grade crossing. I’ve never seen it like that, but it made quite some noise and it was really hard to ignore the train that way. It looks like some Caltrain engineers have gotten a little nervous by these recent accidents. I don’t blame them - after all, it’s not really their fault, if some people just walk onto the tracks right in front of a train. But then, those aren’t really grade crossing accidents either …

Posted in: Uncategorized | May 17, 2006 10:13 pm