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News Wire: Brightline service under scrutiny after grade-crossing incidents

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:33 PM

Personal injury attorneys, politicians strongly criticize new passenger rail service

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/01/18-deaths-draw-extra-scrutiny-to-brightline-service

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Posted by CMStPnP on Friday, January 19, 2018 11:23 AM

I don't think anything will come of this as they meet the current FRA safety standards for grade crossings and they have even fenced in the right of way in places.

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, January 19, 2018 3:34 PM

CMStPnP
I don't think anything will come of this as they meet the current FRA safety standards for grade crossings and they have even fenced in the right of way in places.

I believe Sun Rail has had a number of incidents.  The 'public' thinks the tracks are there as just a 'period deocorcation'; after all they don't run trains anymore.

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Posted by 7j43k on Friday, January 19, 2018 7:32 PM

BaltACD

The 'public' thinks the tracks are there as just a 'period deocorcation'; after all they don't run trains anymore.

 

 

When the gates come down, and there starts to be a "dink-dink-dink-dink-dink......", there's a broad implication that the decoration is going to include a moving tableau.

 

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, January 19, 2018 10:11 PM

Brian Schmidt
Personal injury attorneys, politicians strongly criticize new passenger rail service

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/01/18-deaths-draw-extra-scrutiny-to-brightline-service

Florida and Palm Beach County have a whole lot more worries than the operation of Brightline.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/transportation/florida-the-most-dangerous-state-for-pedestrians/C7U3UYItaqh1cRPg5AbXCM/

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