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Maybe Our Railroads Need Some Robber Barons - Is Florida’s Brightline a remedy for our ailing rail system? (commonplace.substack.com)
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[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Romero saw a slow-moving freight train and drove around the gates to try to beat it. A police report said Romero was ‘oblivious’ to the fact that a much faster Brightline train was approaching from the other direction.

I wouldn't say a lack of safety guards nor the train itself is to blame in this instance.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Nope, the issue 99.99% of the time is, and will always be, stupid entitled assholes.

Thankfully its a self correcting problem, since their population will slowly diminish and, perhaps with luck, one day go extinct.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, seriously, what a moron.

But I guess in the article most deaths are from pedestrians crossing the tracks in areas away from street/pedestrian crossings. Still not necessarily a smart move, but I guess people are not realizing how fast the high speed rail trains go vs regular trains.