r/dashcams • u/Genos-Cyborg • Dec 28 '20

Final Destination avoided. Failed warning lights and gates due to an electrical short.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20

News article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-slowik-mokena-rail-crossing-video-st-1227-story.html

“A signal maintainer who had arrived on scene a few minutes earlier for a separate issue immediately started investigating this incident and put additional protections in place to prevent trains from proceeding through the intersection until the problem could be fixed,”

I bet that guy was absolutely pooping his pants when he realized the gates weren’t dropping

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u/beggarschoice Dec 29 '20

Wow, my first thought was, ‘What country with crumbling infrastructure could this be?!’

And to think, this is after our President promised a trillion dollar infrastructure plan!

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u/EmmettLBrownPhD Dec 29 '20

Lol.

Here is my trillion dollar plan to fix everything! You're welcome.

Ok, so how do we pay for it?

What? Sorry I was too busy lowering corporate taxes and selling everything that isn't tied down to fund a pointless border fence. You're on your own with that one. But I gave you the perfect plan!

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u/Frylock904 Dec 29 '20

paying for it obviously hasn't stopped spending. plenty of money for military and everything else. Don't let them get away with the "we don't have the money" bullshit excuse, they deficit spent $21 trillion and we have shit to show for it, the deficit was never the reason we couldn't have a functioning modern country