High-speed passenger train collides with firetruck in Florida, injuring 15 people
www.theguardian.com
Firetruck drove around rail crossing arms after waiting for earlier train to pass, according to person briefed on details
  • ptc075English
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    2 days ago

    At first I assumed this was the Onion, as we all know damn well there’s no high speed passenger trains in America.

    Doing a quick Googling, I see Brightline’s average speed is 69 MPH. /sigh. And folks wonder why we’re so car-centric here.

  • Sonori@beehaw.org
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    3 days ago

    “High Speed”, as in just about makes the minimum threshold along one section, something standard British intercity services did routinely in the 70s.

    Can we please stop calling every north american passenger line High Speed to make up for the fact that we only have one line that actually meets the standard, and it still has auch a poor right of way that it’s average speed is slower than the highway.

    Like, in most of the world we differentiate between high speed rail lines and snail rail because they behave very differently with high speed lines being significantly faster than driving, meanwhile in the US we don’t have any proper high speed services but try and market all of our trains as high speed.