Boulden school bus number 51
I was behind this bus this morning on Route 82. We approached the Delaware Central Railroad, which is a single track across 82. Within sight of the crossing are the empty concrete footings where the entire trestle bridge was washed away in the floods a few years ago.
The driver stopped at the crossing.
Twice. Once there and once farther down the road where the track re-crosses 82.
I know the bridge near Route 48 is also out. I suppose, for a moment, that heavy lift helicopters may have deposited a locomotive on that track, where a suicidal engineer may attempt to hurl it into the streambed at high speed, or some kind of amphibious trackless locomotive will ford the stream and hit the bus. But I doubt it.
It's that kind of blind, sheeplike adherence to some rule that makes TSA guards at airports deny passage to a toddler who's name happens to be on the terrorist watch list, and it's just as stupid.
The driver stopped at the crossing.
Twice. Once there and once farther down the road where the track re-crosses 82.
I know the bridge near Route 48 is also out. I suppose, for a moment, that heavy lift helicopters may have deposited a locomotive on that track, where a suicidal engineer may attempt to hurl it into the streambed at high speed, or some kind of amphibious trackless locomotive will ford the stream and hit the bus. But I doubt it.
It's that kind of blind, sheeplike adherence to some rule that makes TSA guards at airports deny passage to a toddler who's name happens to be on the terrorist watch list, and it's just as stupid.
posted by Unknown at 4:00 PM
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