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What's the meaning of level in level a gap, and connection point?

Why can't they put a protective sleeve of the power rail, that the train can still access through. But make it hard for a person to accidentally fall on. For such a sue friend society, I find it strange many people have sued the transit system for accidental deaths

Because insulating a conductor so it doesn't conduct defeats the entire purpose of having a conductor in the first place.

You can have two support structures on either side that are higher than the rail and still level a gap in the middle for the trains connection point to make contact. Then if you fail on it, you shouldn't make accidental contact.

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  • Where did you get the original text from?
    – J.R.
    Jul 8, 2012 at 18:07
  • It's from a thread on a forum I visit.
    – Theo
    Jul 8, 2012 at 18:54
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    Given the other problems in the selection (eg sue friend rather than sue-friendly, missing question mark, missing period, non sequitur in third sentence, missing apostrophe in trains, and if you fail on it instead of if you fall on it) it is no stretch at all to see that level is a typo for leave. The question is too localized and should be closed and deleted.
    – James Waldby - jwpat7
    Jul 8, 2012 at 19:34
  • I think it's obvious level should be leave (as fail should be fall), but quite frankly, this entire text seems to have been written by an illiterate. It's way Too Localised.
    – FumbleFingers
    Jul 8, 2012 at 19:52

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I think that level is a mistake for leave.

I think it was intended to read

and still leave a gap in the middle for the train's connection point to make contact.

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As Colin mentioned in his answer, and I in my comment, level evidently is a mistake or typo and should be leave.

Regarding the term connection point: This refers to the point of contact between the train's shoe and the current-carrying high-voltage third rail used in some electrified train systems. enter image description here

A more-detailed picture of a shoe appears at railway-technical.com, where the above image is from.

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