ashkeba
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If people don't want to use them, they don't have to, but it's their risk. But on railways, we blame the railway, which seems strange, and leads to old pedestrian gates being locked out of use, barrow crossings removed, forcing them to walk across level crossings with motor traffic without pavements (because there were other safer pedestrian crossings) and poor passengers desperately trying to reach their train being insulted on TV news as examples of gamblers selfishly trying to jump crossings.At the risk of going OT, many roads, dual carriageways etc have pelicon crossings, bridges or under-passes to allow safe crossing.
Of course, if people don't want want to use them....
Better solutions should be found but this mostly affects rural stations and the prevailing attitude is they should be thankful to still have stations, no matter if they have to arrive 75 minutes before their intended train as suggested above!