Friday, August 11, 2017

Emergency vehicles and light rail crossings

On occasion, I've wondered what happens when an ambulance or fire engine needs to cross a light rail line. Today's morning commute reminded me of that question: as the train was pulling in to one of the Denver stations, a fire vehicle was needing to get across.

I wasn't sitting far enough forward in the train to see details, but the fire vehicle crossed the tracks before the train crossed the road, so I'm assuming that the train operators have some way to release or shut down the crossing gates.

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