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Miami Herald trying to deny Darwin His due.
It really is about education and people not knowing how trains work.
We've become so used to everything having a dozen warning labels and having padding that we forget that there's things that will bite you if you stop paying attention.
Playing on the train tracks is one of those things.
It will also sort itself out if you give it time.
It will be hardest on the slowest learning, but that's how it goes.
Quite a few deaths are from drug users using on the tracks. The rest? They ignore the sounds of bells and horns, ignore the flashing lights on the train, ignore the wide markings at crossings, ignore the barriers at crossings, ignore the large angry beast coming down at them.
ReplyDeleteBrightline already restricts speed in heavily congested areas.
The article is whiny bullscat. And all the more funny because said fishwrapper used to bitch and moan about the lack of High Speed Rail in these United States, especially in Florida.
It might be Brightline's fault if the train jumps the track due to bad maintenance, or all the warning systems failed at once. But, no. Brightline, unlike Amtrak, is constantly maintaining their equipment, while the Florida East Coast and Brightline maintain the tracks, crossings, signals and the rest of the right-of-way.