Glendale has added pedestrian safety devices at a new, and lightly traveled, crossing for the Grand Central Business Center, but the busy Sunland crossing, most dangerous on the Metrolink system, has no protection for pedestrians. (Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times)
Pedestrian barriers installed by the city of San Fernando. (Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times)
The stretch of track where Joan Vowels was killed in 1994 is still wide open to pedestrians. (Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times)
This is what David Michael Griswold might have seen while picking up his skateboard just before a freight train hit him at Van Nuys Boulevard in Pacoima. (Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times)
After David Michael Griswold death, this fence was erected around the bus stop he was probably headed toward, but it hasn’t been maintained. (Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times)
Metrolink’s “sealed” corridor barricades would not deter a pedestrian or determined motorist. (Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times)
