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Wade 'n Tarnation 🤠🚂
@watn_tarnation
I'm a big fan of treating transportation deaths as an infrastructure failure but Brightline is constantly catching strays over FDOT's insane intersection design, local towns insisting on banning the use of the horn, and Florida drivers and pedestrians trying very hard to die
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Rob Wile
@rjwile
Brightline trains have killed 182 people, significantly more than publicly known, an investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN, South Florida’s NPR member station, has found. miamiherald.com/news/local/art
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Wade 'n Tarnation 🤠🚂
@watn_tarnation
Like this is the shit FDOT built and went "this is fine"
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The Goddamned Penguin
@who_shot_jgr
gotta say i think FDOT bears a lot of the blame here. this is a railroad from 1885 which always hosted fast trains, even when it was freight-only. what the hell were your traffic engineers thinking x.com/aaron_leib/sta…
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siicamore
@siicamore
>and Florida drivers and pedestrians trying very hard to die lmao
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Armand Domalewski
@ArmandDoma
dawg I think some Florida drivers just crave death x.com/rjwile/status/…
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@spicy_bagz
if you have a culture of wrestling alligators, then being the guy that gets through the track at the last minute and avoids gruesome death for bragging rights totally scans.
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EJ Campbell
@ejc3
This is why they were able to build the railroad so cheaply. Didn’t invest in above grade crossings or fencing along the route.
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Bet Sobon
@SobonBet
Anyone who gets hit by a train is either suicidal or a moron. Natural selection. And anyone who moves near a train crossing and then complains about the noise is also a moron.
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Jeff
@SEAsheltie
Right after the bisected Maserati a-hole was the most surprising and sympathetic part of the article to me: Only 13% of fatalities are in cars! Most people died where there are no gates or flashing lights!
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C🔆co Writes
@WritesCoco
I was horrified by the brightline death stats until I started seeing the videos of what happened and like 99/100 it's someone in an SUV with a salt life bumper sticker trying to race a train through an intersection and losing.
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None
@NoneLizard
I’m not one to victim blame, but the idea of an unstoppable multi-ton block of steel intersecting me is enough to make me think about approaching train tracks.
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Donal
@Spelt_D_o_n_a_l
Those things ARE infrastructure failures, they’re just not the failure of the RAIL infrastructure, certainly not 100%.
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DavidAnderson_JD_NYC
@DavidandersonJd
Sliced in half humans and fireballs are an average Tuesday for the Mazarati owner. And if you're going to enjoy that kind of thing, Florida is the best place to do it. Can't do it here in Manhattan, the traffic is terrible. But I would like to own a Mazarati. Because they're
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Oliver Klozoff 🌲
@OliverKlozoff96
Generally whenever someone says accidental deaths in Florida I tune out because of the stereotype of Florida man/woman. Brightline could "kill" (see, people being retarded) probably 4x more than that and I still wouldn't think it's their fault
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ExergyDev
@ExergyDev
This article should show videos of some of these accidents where idiots ignore the signs and drive through an active train crossing.
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Tom
@morliklosername
Florida has a culture of "obeying any saftey laws makes you a fucking loser". I'm amazed they haven't legalized no seatbelts. I'd wager 50% of these deaths are a 45+ y/o saying "You think I'm gonna let some lights and barriers tell *ME* how to live *MY* life?" right before impact
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