Yes. Grade separated trains are famously unpredictable, space inefficient, and the only way for you to be safe from them is to wear a tracking beacon from the moment you leave your front door.
Good job.
Good job.
The wrong side of the tracks thing is political and social, not literally because of the tracks.
Just recently we had to call in the military to protect the train tracks, people just constantly crossing train tracks. Trains constantly driving over hordes of people is really slowing down the economy.
If there only was some kind of technology to would tell people if its safe to cross or not.
I live in the country that most people agree has the best trains in the world. Illegal crossing of trains is basically a non issue. It barley ever happens, its almost never discussed, its not in the media much at all.
The amount of issue the country has because of trains is almost 0, with freak accidents where some teenagers swim in the river and then climb onto a railway bridge.
Cars that are being replaced are about 1000x more of a problem for safety. Trains are universally safer and every traveler that moves from a car to a train is a waste improvement in safety.
The train stations actually connect everything together.
Its also pretty easy to cross a train, mostly its 1-2 tracks and most of the time there is no train going threw. You know what isn't easy to cross, crazy insane 8 lane strodes or 20 lane highways that are constantly full of fast driving cars.
Also if trains are not gigantic American cargo trains you can have the train cross the road, the road closes for like 2 min and then the train has passed by.
A train system needs to be designed for people, not just a bulldozer driving straight threw a neighborhood and then a train that goes from one side of the country to the other go threw there. The train stops need to happen often with fast electrified trains going stopping often to connected villages and sometimes even multiple stop in villages.