To think level crossings need to be banned

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Or at least all monitored by CCtv at all times? I just feel they cause awful risk to both people on food and in cars.

Only if the people on foot or in cars are total idiots.

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What would you suggest as an alternative? Diverting all traffic for miles to find another route? Or build bridges in place of each of them, potentially costing billions? I don't think they are dangerous, unless some idiot decides to try and cut across when the gates are lowered.

Yes and let's also ban cars as they are dangerous and food as we might choke and let's tell those scary oceans we want to ban them too as people drown in them 🙄

Yes, let's ban them. We can just give way at the tracks, look right and left and judge for ourselves. The alternative is?

CCTV won't stop being being reckless.
Major huge cost to replace many of them.

We can't just ban things because stupid people can't follow simple instructions.

It's not the crossings that cause risk to people but the people who don't use them properly.

They are perfectly safe as long as people don’t try to dodge through once the lights and sirens start going. Lived in a village with a LC for donkeys years and we all were taught to treat it with respect.

They don't cause risk to people.

People who don't use them properly cause risk to themselves and others.

Just like roads, or do you think we should get rid of those too?

They probably all have CCTV. We've all seen the ads with videos of near misses. But CCTV like that is only useful after an event. There should be more government safety campaigns and education on safer use of level crossings.

Some people are pricks. They should be the ones who are banned!

Wait until you find out some level crossings don't even have barriers.

Why? Because some people are idiots?

The principle is no different to crossing a road.
Stop, look, listen.

How do you propose dealing with the places roads need to cross rail lines?

Idiots taking themselves out of the gene pool is no bad thing.

Don't see an issue. If someone dodges a barrier and gets hit by a train it's just natural selection in action

We cannot ban eveit

Yep!!

We cannot ban everything that has some level of risk.
I feel that England is already a nanny country as it is, by removing the stuff that poses a risk to someone who lacks basic common sense.

People cause the risk to people by being stupid and not following the clear warnings

I dunno, I think if people are so stupid they need the government to tell them not to cross in front of a train that they're never going to win an argument with, then taking themselves out of the gene pool probably isn't a bad idea. As long as they don't take anyone else with them.

Don’t agree.

we have several here in our borough. maybe 6? They are all monitored by both humans, cctv, computers, there are pedestrian bridges over them and accessible tunnels underneath them, there is NO REASON at all for a human or car to cross the barrier as it’s coming down except for impatience. Of all the accidents that ever occur, they are almost always a car pushing through or someone getting whacked by a barrier coming down as they thought they’d chance it.

Ban impatience.

Apart from when the gates don't come across (other reports indicated this). These ones rollover as opposed to barriers that come down.

Level crossing are one of my irrational fears, but they are a necessary evil. I always look left and right before I drive over, even controlled ones.

www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2024-05-01/train-and-car-collide-on-level-crossing