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Originally Posted by The_bluester
We would need to be a lot further from a design legacy that seems to be related to the steam era for it to work. Even the newer stations like Tarneit (I called it Derrimut before which is not right, working from memory) the platform is completely open right to the edge, inches from the trains. Imagine a train expressing through there at even 100KMH! If you were on the road doing 100 and saw someone standing 500mm from the edge of the lane looking at their phone you would be unlikely to keep on at 100, and drivers in cars can swerve as well as brake, something a train driver can't do. they can only hit the emergency brakes and hope there is not a thud.
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Maybe it’s different in Victoria, but in the rest of the world, we call it natural selection
Back in the country that invented them, trains chug through stations at 200km/h...they paint a yellow line on the platform and post signs... “High speed trains pass this platform. Stand back from the platform edge, behind the yellow line”. And they have a much greater population density and train ridership than anywhere in Australia, without regular clean-up events.