{"items": [{"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/889829846732?comment_id=889831238942", "anchor": "fb-889831238942", "service": "fb", "text": "Biloxi.", "timestamp": "1500990060"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/889829846732?comment_id=889831238942&reply_comment_id=889831837742", "anchor": "fb-889831238942_889831837742", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;@Michael: were you trying to tag someone?", "timestamp": "1500990463"}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/889829846732?comment_id=889831238942&reply_comment_id=889836308782", "anchor": "fb-889831238942_889836308782", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;I assume he is referring to this incident: http://www.cnn.com/.../urgent-biloxi.../index.html", "timestamp": "1500991751"}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/889829846732?comment_id=889831238942&reply_comment_id=889836767862", "anchor": "fb-889831238942_889836767862", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;It looks like the bus bottomed out and stalled on the tracks, and was there for several minutes before the train hit it?  This isn't the sort of situation that opening the doors before crossing the tracks is trying to prevent.", "timestamp": "1500991961"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/889829846732?comment_id=889831238942&reply_comment_id=889859691922", "anchor": "fb-889831238942_889859691922", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman no, but it's the type of incident that will be blown out of proportion and used to fight against your suggestion.", "timestamp": "1500998416"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/889829846732?comment_id=889835884632", "anchor": "fb-889835884632", "service": "fb", "text": "Strongly agree with the \"make buses more danger\" philosophy, but it's not clear to me this particular regulation is net harmful. Both the cost and benefit are very small.", "timestamp": "1500991542"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/889829846732?comment_id=889835884632&reply_comment_id=889868110052", "anchor": "fb-889835884632_889868110052", "service": "fb", "text": "&rarr;&nbsp;Extra mental load on the driver.", "timestamp": "1501001293"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1501080077753", "service": "gp", "text": "Is there a problem where buses at train crossings (especially ones without signals, which I gather are a thing, although not so much in these parts perhaps) might not realize a train was coming? If so, how would you solve that problem other than by stopping and opening the door to listen?", "timestamp": 1501080077}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1501081111774", "service": "gp", "text": "@Josh\n I'm not sure how people handle crossings with barriers or signals.  Stopping and opening the door to look and listen might be the only option there, I don't know.  All of the active crossings the MBTA interacts with that I know of have signals, plus either barriers or extremely slow moving and loud trains (grand junction near MIT)", "timestamp": 1501081111}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/118273920476267337216", "anchor": "gp-1501082770609", "service": "gp", "text": "Yeah, it seems like adding \"at a crossing without barriers or signals\" might be an easy change in that case.\n<br>\n<br>\n(Unless those barriers or signals routinely fail to function correctly or something, but I suspect that's not the case, or we'd have a lot more train vs vehicle collisions. The ones I can remember hearing about around here were all cases where a motorist tried to go around a barrier, or through a crossing too late or early.)", "timestamp": 1501082770}]}