I am writing to express my total disgust regarding a TRAX safety ad I heard last evening on a local FM radio station. The ad describes, in gruesome detail, a rail line accident where a man is severed in half by the train's wheels after falling under a moving rail car.

The description ponders his state of mind as it happens and paints the listener a mental picture of his legless torso bouncing under the car "like a medicine ball." It is awful. I immediately reached for my car radio, wondering if I really knew which radio station I was listening to.If TRAX was after a visceral response, they got one from me, but only because the ad served to intensify and heighten the already strong negative feelings I have felt for some time.

Does TRAX recommend to automakers and airlines that they should also promote safety by offending the public? No serious or fatal accident of any kind is pleasant to experience or pretty to watch. Most people have decent common sense and will avoid accidents if they can. Certainly, TRAX can educate for safety's sake without abandoning propriety and civility altogether.

Such arrogance the TRAX organization displays. How can they be so completely numb to the fact that TRAX is controversial and unpopular in the first place?

TRAX's already heavy-handed start-up will make even more adversaries very quickly. I, for one, am still incensed about it having been shoved down our throats in the first place. I will not ride it. I will not vote to fund it in the future, and I strenuously object to the belligerent attitude displayed in their start-up "safety" efforts thus far.

Colin D. Campbell

South Jordan

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