Photo Credit: Fair Use [17 U.S.C. § 107] Brightline collision with a passenger automobile
What Republicans Don't Want You to Know About Private High-Speed Rail
10 Apr 2025 | Abstracted from The New Republic
"Manhattan Institute for Policy Research have similarly portrayed Brightline as proof that private models work better than public ones...
"Brightline Florida is not merely deadly, it is the single deadliest railway per mile in the country - three times worse than the next midsize or major railroad...Brightline shunned Federal Railroad Administration recommendations for sealed corridors at 31 of its [315] crossings...can cost up to $40 million per crossing..."
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