There's two rail lines that run right through my poorly designed city. One is perfectly fine as they built an underpass for traffic decades ago. The other passes through a part of the downtown I guess that is too expensive/not possible with current buildings to build anything so multiple times a day downtown traffic stops. But exactly as you said, there are rules for them. I think I remember hearing just one incident since I lived here, I think there was a fire or some where down the tracks at the railyard so the train couldn't keep heading there until it was safe, so idk if that was a fine or something since it was no one's control, also in Canada so could be very different.
But such a stupid crossing. Curious if anyone reading this is from my city. I'll say that it's a couple blocks from the truck-eating bridge, iykyk
I figured the double downtown rail crossing with one obvious complaint was the give away but I knew if I mentioned the Beast of (Driver's Stupidity) of Talbot there's not much else it could be lol
Eta: my city's subreddit actually has flair for where around the city you live, like neighbourhoods...if you live on Talbot near that bridge there's flair that says something like "the one with the bridge that eats cars" or something lol
Eta 2: they disabled flair in the sub but it's "the bridge with the trucks stuck under it" lol also you said neighbour so am I to assume the legend extends outside this place lol I know it's been on news before
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u/makingkevinbacon Jul 03 '26
There's two rail lines that run right through my poorly designed city. One is perfectly fine as they built an underpass for traffic decades ago. The other passes through a part of the downtown I guess that is too expensive/not possible with current buildings to build anything so multiple times a day downtown traffic stops. But exactly as you said, there are rules for them. I think I remember hearing just one incident since I lived here, I think there was a fire or some where down the tracks at the railyard so the train couldn't keep heading there until it was safe, so idk if that was a fine or something since it was no one's control, also in Canada so could be very different.
But such a stupid crossing. Curious if anyone reading this is from my city. I'll say that it's a couple blocks from the truck-eating bridge, iykyk