Can’t park that there mate.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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Oi mate, where's yar shop parking loicense?
At first I thought it was really neat that the tram had tracks right through the building
My first thought was why did they design the tracks with that weird bend in it and that the tram was coming out though a tunnel in the building!
Four people were injured, none were believed to have severe injuries.
How did it happen? Car hit it?
Too high speed through the corner.
The tram was coming from the right side of the picture and was turning left (to exit out the bottom of the picture). Considering it went all the way to the back wall of that store it must have been going pretty fast..
Source: I work 100 meters from where this happened (earlier today!)
I blame eurobeat and drifting anime instead.
NO-TRACK DRIFTING
We have a similar issue in Toronto where our tram operators speed between stations/stops, and go in and out of turns at ludicrous speed (as if they were driving a car).
Trams as well as buses end up backed up as a result because of this excessive need to speed. One of the reasons I somewhat hate Toronto transit operators as they toss us around inside the transite vehicles.
Ludicrous speed definition: https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/Ludicrous_Speed
Damn, how the hell do I find out about this on Lemmy before my local news??
Well, the actual reason is that I was inside a building at the time and didn't hear it, haven't checked the news, and didn't go through the area this time.. but still lol
Anyway this sucks :< trams are good pals
What's the word on it? Give us the inside dirt.
What do you want to know? :3
You can translate the nrk.no news if you want more details, I won't know much more than that, mainly since I don't think there's much more to know
They got it out!
Trams shouldn't go shopping...
Any suggestions to a variant of "the front fell off" for this event?
Streets of Tarkov
squiggle!
"Her smeller trikken inn i butikken" is a good title
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.