When the playwright David Rabe novelized Sean Penn's 1995 film "The Crossing Guard," in which Jack Nicholson played a man obsessed with avenging the drunk-driving death of his young daughter, the book turned out better than the movie.
But an analysis of government records found that from 1999 through 2003, there were at least 400 grade-crossing accidents in which signals either did not activate or were said to have malfunctioned.
Some crossings have a regulation in which the train cannot sound its whistle (quiet zones, except in emergencies), but always bring a form of ear protection as a precaution.
But illegal border crossings are generally not situations in which there is a surplus of humanity.
Your correspondent lived for five years in Brussels, a city in which zebra crossings adorn almost every crossroads, but seem to have almost no effect on passing motorists.
At the heart of the book are Yazbek's illegal crossings from Turkey into Syria, in which she attempts to uncover the everyday stories of people caught in the crossfire, as well as those fighting.
Within days he agreed on a deal to share with the other main factions the customs revenues from the two major border crossings in the north, which until then he had recouped for himself alone.
It is within these criss-crossing currents of unequal economies, in which economic insecurity and deprivation coexist with bounded enclaves of global funds, connections and lifestyles, that I have described the hopes, aspirations and trajectories of Maryon and other volunteers and 'tarmackers' in Kisumu.
Many Israeli officials have already indicated that Israel would be amenable to a deal in which the Gaza crossings were opened with an international presence and a nominal Palestinian Authority presence — as long as it isn't Hamas.
The algorithm was then applied to the real dataset of the Winnipeg, Canada, in which 11 river crossings bridges of the city of Winnipeg were subject to the TSS.
