Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Lady dropped her kid off at day care, was headed to work, and drove past cars already stopped for the train and around the gate.

How anyone can ever be so dumb as to go around those arms is beyond me.

But here in Santa Fe, we had two, yes two bicyclists killed by trains when they blithely ignored the red lights and bells at grade crossings and rode their bikes into the oncoming trains. The bike paths don't get their own gate or arm that lowers, but still, if you're riding a bike, while you might be deaf (although neither of these two were) you wouldn't be blind, and so surely you'd see the red lights. And you ought to notice that the cars are stopped.