{"id":1509,"date":"2019-12-05T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2019-12-05T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:34:10","slug":"high-speed-rail-deaths-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-deaths-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail Deaths by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which U.S. high speed rail has the highest death rate? The Brightline Rail<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the major cause of death? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Suicide<\/li><li>Impatient motorists, pedestrians, or bicyclists who misjudge the trains\u2019 speed &amp; ignored bells<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do the numbers look like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>40 since July 2017<\/li><li>1 death per month<\/li><li>1 death for every 29,000 rail miles traveled<\/li><li>By contrast, Florida East Coast, a freight line, has 1 death for every 160,000 miles during the past 2 years<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What proactive work is the rail doing to lower these numbers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>working with suicide prevention groups<\/li><li>using infrared motion detectors to identify suicide potential<\/li><li> drones to patrol tracks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miami.cbslocal.com\/2019\/12\/02\/brightline-florida-high-speed-train-highest-us-death-rate\/\">CBS 4 Miami | Brightline, Florida\u2019s High-Speed Train, Has Highest U.S. Death Rate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which U.S. high speed rail has the highest death rate? The Brightline Rail What is the major cause of death? Suicide Impatient motorists, pedestrians, or bicyclists who misjudge the trains\u2019 speed &amp; ignored bells What do the numbers look like? 40 since July 2017 1 death per month 1 death for every 29,000 rail miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}