Caltrain Hits, Kills Person On Tracks At Main Street Crossing
The fatal crash occurred at 3:59 p.m. [Wednesday, December 5, 2018] when a person was struck by the train at the busy crossing in Redwood City.
This is at least the 312th, yes 312th, fatality since 1995 when Caltrain and the nascent Sacramento-based California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) publicly agreed to use Caltrain tracks for future, unapproved-until 2008 fraudulent ballot measure for HSR was approved by voters. The 1864 Civil War era Caltrain trackway must be replaced asap by grade-separated BART to reduce killings, save delays, and reduce other street-level accidents. Although BART has its issues--being addressed now by its board, the sooner outdated, street level Caltrain, the Killtrain (wehether by suicide or accident) that flies through the most dense part of the Bay Area at 70 mph, 110 mph for future HSR, the sooner lives will be saved.
Like the Las Vegas-Victorville (eventually L.A.) privately-funded HSR that will stop near the new Raiders stadium, HSR would be better off going from San Jose to Oakland's planned new stadium rather than up the peninsula. For about the same cost of modifying Caltrain and HSR to get to, and tunnel in SF, to the TBT, (without the additional $Bil's to go under the Bay to Oakland), BART's cost to close the last 30 mile gap from the future Santa CLara station to Millbraie will be far more beneficial to the Bay Area travelers and commuters, about $12 Billions total:grade separeations, electrification, new cars, eminent domain, PTC, (saving current Caltrain Administration $ and odd rail maintenance, etc.
When Senator Jerry Hill is FINALLY ut of office, the key blocker to BART's loop around the Bay since his days in San Mateo politics, the way should be clear and self-evident to finish the two-way huge capacity of BART Around The Bay. Its a no-brainer...and saves lives, anguish, sadness. Caltrain is a taxpayer-subsidized, government owned and operated suicide-killing machine inappriopriate for the Bay Area, but Democrats have to get past their deadly ends-justify-the means HSR (ends)-Caltrain trackway (means))methodology. And "Undaunted" Congressperson Jackie Speier wants to limit or ban guns, yet her name is emblazoned on a Caltrain killing machine Engine number 925. Seems hypocritidal.
About half the deaths to date of Democrat-schmoozing Jim Jones' Jonestown deadly cult...but getting there,, about one a month.
