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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

May 25

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 May 25 OP

it takes aprox. 2 seconds (perhaps 4 if footing is not sound) to 'cross' a set of tracks stopdiggin May 25 #1

The train tracks should be fenced off in populated areas of the line. Squaredeal May 25 #2

Is this a problem in other countries with high speed trains? Midnight Writer May 25 #3

trespasser who didn't look steps in front of train. nt msongs May 25 #4