Death Tram 3000
Lawrence of Amish Tech Support suggests a solution to people making illegal turns in front of the shiny new Houston Metro.
The best way to solve the problem is to put big nasty spikes and plows on the front of each train, Road Warrior-style. Anything that got in the train's path would end up mangled, eviscerated, and torn to bloody/rusty chunks in less than a second. Then accelerate the trains to about 100MPH, mount webcams or air live broadcasts of the tracks, and people would pay good money to see the Downtown Houston Deathtrain 3000's run amok.
I'm sure the Dellner(?) automatic couplers on the front of the Manchester Metrolink trams would make a nasty mess of anything that got in the tram's way. As far as I know, there has yet to be a fatal accident on this line, which has now operated for ten years. Admittedly the street running sections form a small part of the total network.
Posted by TimHall at December 20, 2003 10:46 PM | TrackBackLatest news this morning: A 4th collision, and yet again, it was someone doing an illegal left turn!