Frustratingly penned by Fran H. in an emailto cj@thiscrazytrain.com
I don't know if you've seen this new GO campaign but let's look at what GO is ***really*** trying to say here. Wouldn't a more effective photo be this one?
Instead of "STAND BACK FROM THE YELLOW LINE", the poster should read: JUST DON'T JUMP.I'm sensitive to this because I witnessed a jumper on the Stouffville line about nine years ago. If GO wants to ramp this up, be more graphic.
7 comments:
I think GO is trying to prevent accidents, not suicides. Frankly, I think the yellow line is too close - it should be about 3 feet from the edge.
Agreed. Hard to do on some of those platforms at Union, tho.
what else does someone do when they are standing at the edge of something HIGH up? other than to jump?
it totally reads suicide to me.
I don't see suicide in that photo. They don't look suicidal. I think the message is to treat the line as though it's on the edge of a building, because if you fall, trip, get caught on a passing train, you may as well be falling from a building.
It looks like that guy is doing his level best to get off the tracks.
Most likely he didn't succeed, though. Half a second longer and he would have.
Makes you want to cheer him on, huh?
It makes me want to call him a complete moron. He should have waited 10 seconds for the train to pass. What a complete idiot.
My sympathy always goes out to the train divers who have to deal with this. Can you imagine being a train driver and hitting and killing somone?
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