Opinion: In Tuesday’s Letters to the editor
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Over the weekend, many Times readers responded to Friday’s Metrolink disaster; Tuesday’s letters feature some of their thoughts. Paul Sailer of Los Angeles sums up the reaction well:
It is almost inconceivable that Metrolink depended only on human response to a red light to keep two trains, hurling toward each other at high speeds on a single track, from colliding... Hopefully this horrific tragedy will inspire Metrolink and other passenger railroad systems to install ... fail-safe [safety] devices.
There were reactions, too, to Sunday’s story about lies on the campaign trail -- how, readers ask, can the Times compare the McCain camp’s doozies with Obama’s milder misstatements? Thoughts on the war in Afghanistan, too.
*Photo of Metrolink rider on Monday by Nick Ut/AP.