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The Luas: Badly designed?

magic_murph

Do you think there are design flaws with the luas and the signaling systems etc considering the amount of accident and actual deaths that have been linked with it.

Some incidents are definitely as a result of people running red lights etc but not all can be classed this way.

I wonder how much of a review takes places after each of the incidents

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wakka12

Only 6 pedestrians have been killed in 15 years, so less than one every two years with over 41.8 million passengers riding it safely annually (or almost 100 million people riding it safely every two years vs one person dying), and of course most deaths and accidents are through the fault of the pedestrian themselves anyway

The design is fine and as good or better than most tram systems world wide

antoinolachtnai

You can say the Luas wasn't responsible for these other incidents in some legal sense, but the system certainly did result in new risks to road-users.

jam_mac_jam

I would guess its more to do with people ignoring lights and running out in front of it then the design of the tram.

Boom_Bap

Badly designed? It looks like The Terminators mickey!

iamwhoiam

I think the flaw is in the pedestrians who don't take precautions around the trams if I am honest

Victor

magic_murph wrote: »

Do you think there are design flaws with the luas and the signaling systems etc considering the amount of accident and actual deaths that have been linked with it.

More than 440,000,000 million trips and only one (intending) passenger killed. Several other road users have died, but Luas has not been responsible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luas#Notable_incidents

Some incidents are definitely as a result of people running red lights etc but not all can be classed this way.

The vast majority of injuries on railways are due to error by third parties.

I wonder how much of a review takes places after each of the incidents

A lot more than a typical car crash.

ednwireland

it was designed ??

davidk1394

magic_murph wrote: »

Do you think there are design flaws with the luas and the signaling systems etc considering the amount of accident and actual deaths that have been linked with it.

Some incidents are definitely as a result of people running red lights etc but not all can be classed this way.

I wonder how much of a review takes places after each of the incidents

I think if they painted it red or a luminous color so it would stand out other than grey.
Also people walking across in front of the Luas with headphones in or on their phone is modern day Darwinism and natural selection at its finest.
People are stuck to them and I guarantee you if they reviewed the cause of each incident a person on their phone or with headphones in is top of the list

antoinolachtnai

Well, it's an inherently dangerous system. Running trams at frequency and speed in close proximity to pedestrians is just a risky thing to do. It is fine up to a certain point, but when the frequency goes high, you really need something segregated, like the proposed MetroLink.

The Luas safety record is actually not bad considering how busy the system is and how many interactions there are with pedestrians and other traffic.

The Rail Safety Commission looks at incidents. I don't really know what the protocol is for investigations.