r/mildlyinfuriating • u/derek4reals1 • 1d ago

Overdone The parking job wasn't the part

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u/DavidBrooker 1d ago

I don't know what city this is, but in many places with busy tram routes, it's very easy for this problem to cascade to the entire line since they have to maintain safe train spacing. In my city, a ten minute delay is easily affecting four or five trains during rush hour.

There was an accident recently (a driver made an illegal turn in front of a train) that shut down the line for an hour, and someone on my city's sub worked out that the damages in lost productivity - from people on the train line being delayed by an hour - was well over a million dollars.

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u/dechets-de-mariage 1d ago

I have long felt that if someone causes a crash on the highway then they should get fined along these lines.

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u/jaxlynrose 19h ago

It’s Portland OR and it backs up all the streetcars (not larger Max Light Rail) when it happens and it sucks ass. Especially if you gotta get to work.