New prepare day must be a constructive one crammed with tales about joyful commuters which are lastly capable of go away their vehicles at dwelling and journey to work. However as we speak, the day Brightline started the primary high-speed rail hyperlink between Miami and Orlando, isn’t a type of days. That’s as a result of America’s deadliest rail line has struck and killed one other pedestrian.

This morning, amid a lot fanfare, Brightline kicked off its first service from Miami to Orlando in Florida. The inaugural service was offered out, based on native information, and makes the journey from Miami to Orlando in round three and a half hours due to a prime velocity of as much as 125 mph.

Nonetheless, simply minutes earlier than the primary Miami to Orlando prepare was set to depart this morning, one other Brightline prepare hit and killed a pedestrian. In keeping with the Palm Seashore Put up, the Brightline service was touring by means of Delray Seashore when the incident occurred.

The sufferer, who has not but been recognized by authorities, was killed on the southbound tracks at Southeast Second Avenue and Southeast Fourth Avenue in Delray Seashore. The Palm Seashore Put up provides that the “prepare had left the West Palm Seashore station minutes earlier.” The location reviews:

The fatality was a minimum of the sixth involving pedestrians and Brightline trains in Palm Seashore County this yr, and the fourth in Delray Seashore. Two folks died on Feb. 8 and one other on June 5. Different fatalities passed off Jan. 21 in Boca Raton and Might 12 in Lake Value Seashore.

Whereas there was a barrier throughout the street on the intersection between the Brightline tracks and Southeast Second Avenue, the rail line makes use of previous FEC Railway tracks which have “have few obstacles to pedestrians strolling alongside them or crossing them.”

It’s this infrastructure alongside the rail line that has earned Brightline the title of deadliest railway in America. Up to now yr alone, trains on the road have hit a automotive transporter and SUV and a automotive that was misplaced on its tracks.

Whereas I’ll at all times come out in favor of extra trains, that may solely occur when governments and personal corporations are ready to put money into security measures that defend rail riders and those that dwell and journey across the tracks.