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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Midnight Writer

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3. Is this a problem in other countries with high speed trains?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2026, 03:12 PM

Yesterday

Or is this one of those "uniquely American" problems like daily mass shootings?

79 mph is fast, but no faster than traffic on many of our highways.

Walking on a high-speed rail track (where 200 people have already been killed by trains) after midnight seems to be awfully risky behavior. Even more so if you are hearing-impaired.

If you decide to go swimming on a beach where there are riptide warnings and you get carried out to sea, it is a tragedy, but it is not the ocean's fault.

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Miami Graffiti Artist Dies After Being Struck by Train That's Reportedly Killed Over 200 People [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday OP

it takes aprox. 2 seconds (perhaps 4 if footing is not sound) to 'cross' a set of tracks stopdiggin Yesterday #1

The train tracks should be fenced off in populated areas of the line. Squaredeal Yesterday #2

Is this a problem in other countries with high speed trains? Midnight Writer Yesterday #3

trespasser who didn't look steps in front of train. nt msongs Yesterday #4