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Parents blame train on students' tardiness

Posted on 1/30/18 at 8:50 am
Posted by pioneerbasketball
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Posted on 1/30/18 at 8:50 am
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The magnet school, elementary, middle and high school are all off Highway 51, which also happens to be a main drag. However, a train intersects that stretch from 7 to 8 a.m. every day, which ultimately causes delays.


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A group of parents plan to sit on the train tracks Tuesday morning between 7 and 8 a.m. to protest the train route.

Posted by WG_Dawg
Member since Jun 2004
88653 posts
Posted on 1/30/18 at 9:20 am to
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a train intersects that stretch from 7 to 8 a.m. every day


how either long or slow (or both) is this friggin train to take an entire hour at that intersection?

Also, I have no sympathy for these parents if they alreayd KNOW in advance the train schedule and KNOW that from 7-8 every day this stretch is going to be unpassable. Leave earlier or take another route you fricks.

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A group of parents plan to sit on the train tracks Tuesday morning between 7 and 8 a.m. to protest the train route.


And they will be arrested, people don't frick around with trains or interrupting commerce.
Posted by Tiger Ree
Houston
Member since Jun 2004
24563 posts
Posted on 1/30/18 at 9:26 am to
I guess in an emergency situation - fire, health, etc the school is screwed. Too bad there's not a bank blocked off by a train for an hour - it would probably be robbed every day it was open and some days it was closed.
Posted by Kentucker
Cincinnati, KY
Member since Apr 2013
19351 posts
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:06 pm to
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Dickinson’s proposed solution to the train: simply run at another time—just not during school rush hour.


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As for the parents, they simply want the train to avoid using the tracks between 7 and 8 in the morning.


Stop making those fat people's lives inconvenient!
Posted by Agforlife
Somewhere in the Brazos Valley
Member since Nov 2012
20102 posts
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:10 pm to
The train tracks were there long before the school was built, sounds like piss poor location planning to me. Parents just need to get up and leave earlier or the school needs to start later.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
58831 posts
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:13 pm to
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Parents blame train on students' tardiness


So this guy grew up and had kids?

Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
68160 posts
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:24 pm to
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A group of parents plan to sit on the train tracks Tuesday morning between 7 and 8 a.m. to protest the train route.

Cool; please let us know how that works out.
Posted by CNB
Columbia, SC
Member since Sep 2007
100000 posts
Posted on 1/30/18 at 12:27 pm to
The parents are idiots and in the wrong here

But that is certainly an inconvenient time for a train. That's life though. Adapt
Posted by Commander Data
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Dec 2016
7291 posts
Posted on 1/30/18 at 2:02 pm to
My wife has this exact problem every morning or on most mornings. She has been late once and the school understood but you can bet your arse she adapted and took a route 5 minutes longer out of the way the very next day.
Posted by Weagle25
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Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 1/30/18 at 8:41 pm to
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Parents blame train on students' tardiness


You no English good
Posted by pioneerbasketball
Team Bunchie
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 1/30/18 at 10:46 pm to
Copied the headline
Posted by alphaandomega
Tuscaloosa-Here to Serve
Member since Aug 2012
15748 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 12:53 pm to
Sounds like they need an overpass.

Maybe some of that infrastructure money could do it...
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
96848 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 5:06 pm to
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group of parents plan to sit on the train tracks Tuesday morning between 7 and 8 a.m. to protest the train route.


Bold Strategy Cotton
Posted by jangalang
Member since Dec 2014
45294 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 5:53 pm to
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how either long or slow (or both) is this friggin train to take an entire hour at that intersection?

The train is probably setting off cars at an industry. Takes some time to tie some handbrakes, perform a brake test, make a cut and uncouple, set off the cars, couple back up to the main unit and allow the air pressure to build up before leaving
Posted by The_Joker
Winter Park, Fl
Member since Jan 2013
16355 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 6:05 pm to
The parents planning to protest are idiots but that seriously sucks that everyone is stuck on either side of the tracks for a freaking hour
Posted by The_Joker
Winter Park, Fl
Member since Jan 2013
16355 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 6:14 pm to
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My wife has this exact problem every morning or on most mornings. She has been late once and the school understood but you can bet your arse she adapted and took a route 5 minutes longer out of the way the very next day.


Unless there's a place in this town with an overpass, then there's no "adapting"
This post was edited on 1/31/18 at 6:17 pm
Posted by Barstools
Atlanta
Member since Jan 2016
10442 posts
Posted on 1/31/18 at 11:42 pm to
I just thought I would point out the obvious to some of the slower people in this thread, the train doesn't block the road for a fricking hour. It passes through at some point between 7-8 each day.
Posted by Weagle25
THE Football State.
Member since Oct 2011
47316 posts
Posted on 2/1/18 at 7:10 am to
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Copied the headline

Stephanie Bennett no English good.


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Parents blame train on students' tardiness


This means that because students are tardy, a train was formed.


It should be Parents blame tardiness on train
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