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@benroyce These Brightline trains in Florida have killed so many people due to inadequate crossings:
Ages 17 to 84: who died in Brightline accidents in Florida | Miami Herald
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article312902998.html
@brianvastag @benroyce In the same time these trains killed ~200 people in Florida, cars killed over 30 thousand people. Which "newspaper" printed all their names?
@tkissing Did you read the story? The train deaths could have been prevented by upgrading the crossings.
@brianvastag @tkissing I think the best we can say is that the deaths *may* have been prevented.
There are long stretches of this rail corridor with walls and bad layouts of the streets, no good footpaths etc so lots of people just use one of the crossings and walk the tracks especially from Downtown to Midtown/Design District. I had an apartment overlooking the tracks and I'd see people doing it all the time.
There are long stretches of this rail corridor with walls and bad layouts of the streets, no good footpaths etc so lots of people just use one of the crossings and walk the tracks especially from Downtown to Midtown/Design District. I had an apartment overlooking the tracks and I'd see people doing it all the time.
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@brianvastag @tkissing also even I didn't realize until recently that the rail crossing arms are designed to be knocked off so people shouldn't fear hitting them / getting stuck on the tracks. Just drive through. You'll be okay. You might only slightly hurt your vehicle's paint job.
But we don't tell people about this. So they think they're trapped or something and panic when the arms come down on their vehicle or if they're blocked in because they're stupid and stopped on the tracks when the traffic was heavy.
But we don't tell people about this. So they think they're trapped or something and panic when the arms come down on their vehicle or if they're blocked in because they're stupid and stopped on the tracks when the traffic was heavy.
@feld @brianvastag @tkissing who drives onto train tracks when the exit isn't clear?!?
@Haikyoneko @brianvastag @tkissing there will be like a stop light after the tracks and a line of cars that goes WAY past the tracks
but of course everyone is impatient so they jam all the cars up, light turns red, now you have cars stopped on the tracks
watched them do it every single day.
I'd stop before the tracks like a sane person and people would be honking at me in anger
south florida people are WEIRD
but of course everyone is impatient so they jam all the cars up, light turns red, now you have cars stopped on the tracks
watched them do it every single day.
I'd stop before the tracks like a sane person and people would be honking at me in anger
south florida people are WEIRD