Privately-Owned High-Speed Rail Opens New Line in Florida, Kills Pedestrian

At 11 a.m. Friday in Orlando Florida, a train finished its 240-mile trip from Miami, ushering in a new line from Brightline that gets to rates of approximately 125 miles per hr and also decreases the trip to simply under 3 hrs. “This is going to revolutionize transportation not just in the country and the state of Florida but right here in Central Florida and really just make our backyard bigger,” Brightline’s supervisor of public events Katie Mitzner told a local news station.

Ironically, within hrs a various Brightline train had actually struck and also eliminated a pedestrian. “Brightline trains have the highest death rate in the U.S.,” records one local news station, “fatally striking 98 people since Miami-West Palm operations began — about one death for every 32,000 miles its trains travel, according to an ongoing Associated Press analysis.” An authorities speaker stated the …