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New high-speed Florida train kills 4th person since launching service
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2018 Apr 8, 4:35pm 4,510 views 10 comments
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FortWayne
2018 Apr 8, 4:51pm
FortWayne
2018 Apr 8, 4:51pm
Sniper says
We must ban assault trains, the National Train Association is evil and has a hidden agenda!
If we just had "Common Sense Train Laws", these senseless killings would stop.
We must ban assault trains, the National Train Association is evil and has a hidden agenda!
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Tenpoundbass
2018 Apr 8, 7:28pm
Tenpoundbass
2018 Apr 8, 7:28pm
The same idiots that brings you collapsing bridges and traffic level bullet trains that intersect gridlocked streets.
Also took our once 6 lanes of flawless traffic that took 20 years to build that was i95 though Fort Lauderdale.
And then bottle necked it to just 3 lanes of traffic at the exact spot where i595, Davie Blvd, St Rd 84 all intersect with i95 so that it's an almost guaranteed traffic jam regardless what time or day it is. We're back to 1985 when the 3 lanes of i95 were impeded by the almost sheer steep climb that was the bridge over New River at that junction. They must have put 1000 hectares of dirt and sand to ramp it up over 20 years. To flow smooth with 6 lanes of traffic flowing in each direction. The only time there was gridlock. Was when Florida was going through that whole "Move over It's the law." So even though the wrecks were on the Shoulder, the rescue services would still put out flares and cones to coordinate off 3 lanes of traffic.
So I'm driving just wondering what fucking stupid knuckle head would engineer such bullshit. After my tax dollars once fixed this problem so beautifully?
NPR had South Florida's Transportation commissioner bragging how he made i95 suck so people will think about taking the trains and buses.
The Trains only go north and south, and the buses come once every half hour. If the 6 million people in South Florida all took the public transportation it would take 4 straight days of constant non stop service just to get everyone to work. When the callers pointed this out to him, he blamed us for not taking the buses, or there would be enough buses.
When it was pointed out to the moron that then there would just be gridlocked streets with buses and jitney services. NPR hung up on every caller.
Also took our once 6 lanes of flawless traffic that took 20 years to build that was i95 though Fort Lauderdale.
And then bottle necked it to just 3 lanes of traffic at the exact spot where i595, Davie Blvd, St Rd 84 all intersect with i95 so that it's an almost guaranteed traffic jam regardless what time or day it is. We're back to 1985 when the 3 lanes of i95 were impeded by the almost sheer steep climb that was the bridge over New River at that junction. They must have put 1000 hectares of dirt and sand to ramp it up over 20 years. To flow smooth with 6 lanes of traffic flowing in each direction. The only time there was gridlock. Was when Florida was going through that whole "Move over It's the law." So even though the wrecks were on the Shoulder, the rescue services would still put out flares and cones to coordinate off 3 lanes of traffic.
So I'm driving just wondering what fucking stupid knuckle head would engineer such bullshit. After my tax dollars once fixed this problem so beautifully?
NPR had South Florida's Transportation commissioner bragging how he made i95 suck so people will think about taking the trains and buses.
The Trains only go north and south, and the buses come once every half hour. If the 6 million people in South Florida all took the public transportation it would take 4 straight days of constant non stop service just to get everyone to work. When the callers pointed this out to him, he blamed us for not taking the buses, or there would be enough buses.
When it was pointed out to the moron that then there would just be gridlocked streets with buses and jitney services. NPR hung up on every caller.
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marcus
2018 Apr 8, 9:56pm
marcus
2018 Apr 8, 9:56pm
FortWayne says
The Koch brothers should invest in a network to compete with comedy central. They could make a fortune with this sort of right wing intellectual humor. This hilarity needs to have some sort of media vehicle for sharing it with the masses.Truly brilliant stuff.
We must ban assault trains, the National Train Association is evil and has a hidden agenda!
The Koch brothers should invest in a network to compete with comedy central. They could make a fortune with this sort of right wing intellectual humor. This hilarity needs to have some sort of media vehicle for sharing it with the masses.Truly brilliant stuff.
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clambo
2018 Apr 9, 8:26am
I am presently here in South Florida and I can explain the problem.
People are accustomed to "beating" the slowly moving freight trains which come through populated areas pretty frequently.
The new train moves much faster and it has fooled many people to their own demise.
When you are playing chicken with a train, you will lose when the train is moving 2x as fast as the train you normally play against.
People are accustomed to "beating" the slowly moving freight trains which come through populated areas pretty frequently.
The new train moves much faster and it has fooled many people to their own demise.
When you are playing chicken with a train, you will lose when the train is moving 2x as fast as the train you normally play against.
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MrMagic
2018 Apr 9, 8:38am
MrMagic
2018 Apr 9, 8:38am
clambo says
It's very simple to explain, stupid humans.
I am presently here in South Florida and I can explain the problem.
It's very simple to explain, stupid humans.
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FortWayne
2018 Apr 9, 8:39am
FortWayne
2018 Apr 9, 8:39am
Well thank you.
marcus says
marcus says
FortWayne saysWe must ban assault trains, the National Train Association is evil and has a hidden agenda!
The Koch brothers should invest in a network to compete with comedy central. They could make a fortune with this sort of right wing intellectual humor. This hilarity needs to have some sort of media vehicle for sharing it with the masses.Truly brilliant stuff.
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FortWayne
2018 Apr 9, 11:00am
FortWayne
2018 Apr 9, 11:00am
Thanks AF.
APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says
FortWayne saysWe must ban assault trains, the National Train Association is evil and has a hidden agenda!
I've been giggling since last night. Bravo!
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clambo
2018 Apr 10, 9:04am
It's interesting that Florida is actually suited to high speed rail; the population centers are largely on the coast in a straight line north-south (Orlando is the exception).
The residents of quiet nice towns are vigorously resisting the expansion of this rail system; they want to keep the West Palm Beach riff raff OUT of their nice towns, Stuart for example.
Florida is an interesting mix of third world, retired rich, growing middle class, and locals who may or may not have a confederate flag and an alligator sticker on the pickup truck.
It's odd to see restaurants packed at 6:45 with scores of people over 70, some sporting gold chains and others who sound like Tony Danza, who both want to run you over in the parking lot since they learned to drive in the mean streets of New York or New Jersey.
The residents of quiet nice towns are vigorously resisting the expansion of this rail system; they want to keep the West Palm Beach riff raff OUT of their nice towns, Stuart for example.
Florida is an interesting mix of third world, retired rich, growing middle class, and locals who may or may not have a confederate flag and an alligator sticker on the pickup truck.
It's odd to see restaurants packed at 6:45 with scores of people over 70, some sporting gold chains and others who sound like Tony Danza, who both want to run you over in the parking lot since they learned to drive in the mean streets of New York or New Jersey.
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Tenpoundbass
2018 Apr 10, 9:23am
Tenpoundbass
2018 Apr 10, 9:23am
clambo says
Yeah I just had Bill Cosby stalk me in the Parking Lot of a shopping plazza a few minutes ago while I was out for lunch.
I missed a spot pulled in another row saw no spots, swung back around. I get right on the spot to pull in and see a Black Racist Gentleman just pulling up to the stop sign to swing into the parking row I'm already in. He felt entitled to it, and thinks I was supposed to be intuitive enough to realize that while I was pulling around he saw that spot from Powerline Road and thought for sure it was his personal parking spot with his name on it. How dare that Cracker as he called me numerous of time take "His Spot".
He was banking on my White Guilt to turn around even though I was out of the car walking toward the shop I was going to. He's stalking me telling me how that was his spot. Yelling at me "Do you Know where you are? You're in the Hood!" Even though technically he's wrong I was in Pompano's biggest Jewish condo community.
By now he's stalking me with his car, trying to look like he's jumping out of his car, everytime I turn around, and yelling racist slurs and threating me with Hood Thuggery because I'm in the Hood according to him.
Three white guys in the parking lot heard the whole episode and called him a Racist bastard and told him to get the fuck on before they call the police.
Then one of them followed me in the joint, saying to his buddy inside... "Unbelievable, "They" are getting more embolden!"
To which I said what in the hell is that supposed to mean, I've certainly have had my share of White and Spanish idiots who think they own the road and were disrespected.
Liberals are the biggest Racist cocksuckers, they are gaslighting Whites into being racist so they can win elections.
They fucking can't stand it, but instead I just might change my mind about giving felons back the right to vote, this November, if that's the best discourse they can muster and are so easily manipulated by the Media to think they are entitled to any action I may be taking, they should be there first.
Trains are stupid in Florida we've had them for years in various forms. They do no good when you take a train North, then have to take Ameica's shittiest bus system 20 miles west to get to your job.
Every single person I've known in South Florida since I've been here since 1985 who tried to take the train somewhere. Regretted it and never took it again.
I only know one person, that it did work out for, a Nurse at the University of Miami because the train stopped right at the door. She had to leave 45 minutes earlier than if she just drove there.
It's odd to see restaurants packed at 6:45 with scores of people over 70, some sporting gold chains and others who sound like Tony Danza, who both want to run you over in the parking lot since they learned to drive in the mean streets of New York or New Jersey.
Yeah I just had Bill Cosby stalk me in the Parking Lot of a shopping plazza a few minutes ago while I was out for lunch.
I missed a spot pulled in another row saw no spots, swung back around. I get right on the spot to pull in and see a Black Racist Gentleman just pulling up to the stop sign to swing into the parking row I'm already in. He felt entitled to it, and thinks I was supposed to be intuitive enough to realize that while I was pulling around he saw that spot from Powerline Road and thought for sure it was his personal parking spot with his name on it. How dare that Cracker as he called me numerous of time take "His Spot".
He was banking on my White Guilt to turn around even though I was out of the car walking toward the shop I was going to. He's stalking me telling me how that was his spot. Yelling at me "Do you Know where you are? You're in the Hood!" Even though technically he's wrong I was in Pompano's biggest Jewish condo community.
By now he's stalking me with his car, trying to look like he's jumping out of his car, everytime I turn around, and yelling racist slurs and threating me with Hood Thuggery because I'm in the Hood according to him.
Three white guys in the parking lot heard the whole episode and called him a Racist bastard and told him to get the fuck on before they call the police.
Then one of them followed me in the joint, saying to his buddy inside... "Unbelievable, "They" are getting more embolden!"
To which I said what in the hell is that supposed to mean, I've certainly have had my share of White and Spanish idiots who think they own the road and were disrespected.
Liberals are the biggest Racist cocksuckers, they are gaslighting Whites into being racist so they can win elections.
They fucking can't stand it, but instead I just might change my mind about giving felons back the right to vote, this November, if that's the best discourse they can muster and are so easily manipulated by the Media to think they are entitled to any action I may be taking, they should be there first.
Trains are stupid in Florida we've had them for years in various forms. They do no good when you take a train North, then have to take Ameica's shittiest bus system 20 miles west to get to your job.
Every single person I've known in South Florida since I've been here since 1985 who tried to take the train somewhere. Regretted it and never took it again.
I only know one person, that it did work out for, a Nurse at the University of Miami because the train stopped right at the door. She had to leave 45 minutes earlier than if she just drove there.
If we just had "Common Sense Train Laws", these senseless killings would stop.
Maybe we need background checks before being able to go near a train.
No one needs a train that can go faster than 30 mph.
A man in Florida was hit and killed by a high-speed train on Sunday — the fourth person to die since the train's service began earlier this year, investigators said.
"At 12:47 p.m. a northbound Brightline train struck a pedestrian approximately 100 feet south of the Southeast 4th Street crossing. The male was pronounced deceased at the scene," the Delray Police Department tweeted, adding that they were seeking witnesses.
Sunday's victim was the fourth person to be struck and killed by a high-speed train since service began in January. Among the other deaths: a 51-year-old man on a bicycle, and a 32-year-old woman, both of whom tried and failed to beat oncoming trains after the gates had lowered, police told the Palm Beach Post.
Three other people have been hit and survived, officials said.
Patrick Goddard, Brightline's COO and president, said in January that the company was working with transportation officials to raise awareness about the train, which travels upwards of 70 mph.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/08/new-high-speed-train-in-florida-kills-4th-person-since-launching-service.html