Train Wraps for Safety

It looks like train wraps (where they ‘wrap’ a train with images for advertising or other purposes – the images do not block the windows, but covers the entire train) are not just for advertising.  Here is an article about a new safety message being implemented by Valley Metro in Phoenix.

I wonder if having the train wrapped like that would have helped a pedestrian I heard about (this was not in Phoenix).  Seems a pedestrian ran into a train.  There is a section of the alignment where the train is running alongside of car traffic and there area several streets crossing the tracks.  A pedestrian was crossing the street against the light, and running to avoid the cars, when she ran right into the side of the train.  She fell, the train operator stopped to see if she was ok, and she ran off apparently not injured.  Probably more embarrassed than anything!

Here’s a picture of the train in Phoenix that they are hoping will remind the car drivers to stop on red!