[Manny Alban]

Originally Posted by Der ABT

Wait open passing is a great improvement........no more frustration behind a train waiting for a straight, you learn how to control your car off line at entry mid corner and exit....how to work together to keep the flow of the track going..........it opens a whole new set of skills that make you a more capable and therefore safer driver that was not easily replicated without open passing

I wish I could say the PCA was the trailblazer for extended passing but we weren't. Others were already doing it before we started. We studied it, tried it out with a handful of regions (Potomac was one of the regions) and then weighed the risk management aspect. In the end, it was helpful to regions who hosted DE's in many ways and not the 'safety nightmare' a few folks had warned us that it would turn into.