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Aside from the people it's killed: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article310829260.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article310829260.html (I
by Philpax 1y ago
Aside from the people it's killed: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article310829260.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article310829260.html
(I love high-speed rail; I enjoy it in Europe. I think Brightline's implementation may need some work before it's scaled up.)
- MoltenMan 1y agoFrom what I've seen the majority of the deaths are either a. intentional or b. really not the trains fault. That's not to say it isn't horrible that it happens, but IMO the solution is train safety awareness (don't stop on a railway crossing!!!), and if anything building more high speed rail in the US will improve public awareness of how to be safe around trains.
- justinclift 1y ago> averaging one death every 13 days of service. Holy Shit. That's beyond just terrible.
- justinclift 1y agoThinking about that more, it's like a "real" version of truck-kun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck-kun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck-kun
- namuol 1y agoThis is ultimately scaremongering. First off, safety was supposed to be addressed by government funds which it sounds like only recently were approved; there’s nothing fundamentally unsafe about rail when you actually build it properly. But even if this were the baseline figure, do we really need to compare the death rate of our highway system?
- justinclift 1y ago> But even if this were the baseline figure, do we really need to compare the death rate of our highway system? Wouldn't comparing it with other high speed rail be a better approach? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Safety_record