[CBQ] re: The Tragedy at the Loomis Street Crossing

[Scott Wessely <noisemaker383@yahoo.com>]

I have been a member of this group for a few years now with very little 
interaction but this has struck a cord with me and my profession.

As someone in the fire protection industry and having to study disasters of all 
types in school, I was told there is a "Rule of Three".   

It takes normally three like instances before codes and/or construction methods 
are changed.  

Codes are minimum standards to follow and that's it, minimum.  The issue is 
safety costs money.  The big question that I get day to day, is how can I lower 
the price for this system?  My only response that I have to combat this is, you 
want a design for a cheap fire?

However, the sad point is the loss of life, the ensuing tragedy for years of 
injunctions, trials and media coverage.  By the time the trials and media 
coverage is over the victims and their families are forgotten and to some point 
destroyed or torn apart because of the trials and media coverage.

Now getting back to my point (sorry for the rant, had to have been channeling 
Denis Leary and Dennis Miller) AMTRAK will not likely do anything until they 
get pressured from the government or codes change.  

Again the "Rule of Three".

Regards,
SJW



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