FENCE PUT UP WHERE TRAIN HIT GIRLS; DEATHS PROMPT CALLS FOR BARRIER TO TRACKS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Workers began erecting a fence Sunday along a stretch of railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more. tracks where two toddlers were killed by a Metrolink commuter train last week. ``The fence is a temporary fence that we are putting up in response to concerns of the residents and in our effort to eliminate any other tragedy or unfortunate incidents,'' said Metrolink spokesman Peter Hidalgo Hidalgo, state, Mexico Hidalgo (ēthäl`gō), state (1990 pop. 1,888,366), 8,058 sq mi (20,870 sq km), central Mexico. Pachuca de Soto is the capital. . The 6-foot-high chain-link fence runs 800 feet along A Street from 13th Avenue to a ravine that lies beyond a cluster of apartment buildings. Workers were completing installation Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. . A permanent 1,300-foot-long fence will be installed on Wednesday, Hidalgo said. Neighbors rallied for action after the sisters, one 3 years old and the other 22 months, wandered from their home onto the tracks Tuesday. They lived in one of scores of apartments near the previously unprotected tracks. Last spring a teen-age boy was killed by a Metrolink train a mile away from the spot where the little girls died Tuesday, but Hidalgo said the transit company received complaint calls last week for the first time about the lack of fencing fencing, sport of dueling with foil, épée, and saber. Modern Fencing The weapons and rules of modern fencing evolved from combat weapons and their usage. along the 13th Avenue area. ``We want to be sensitive to the community,'' Hidalgo said. ``We don't believe that fences are the overall solution. We suspect it will help prevent accidents in the future, but we would be naive to say that it would be the end-all solution.'' |
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