Caltrain Hits, Kills Person On Tracks At Main Street Crossing

The fatal crash occurred at 3:59 p.m. 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 Although BART has its issues--being addressed now by its board, the sooner outdated, street level Caltrain, the Killtrain (wehether by suicide or accident) that flies through the most dense part of the Bay Area at 70 mph, 110 mph for future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. Once 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.

December 3, 2019, yet another death by the Caltrain "Killtrain" on its 1864  (5 years before Promontory Point  transcontinental Railroad joined the nation together and the year before the Civil War ended and US President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated) .  The Sunnyvale death may be another suicide.--when the SF Bay Area was sparsely populated with few people and fewer roads.

Yet, Sunnyvale City councilman eagerly proclaimed his support for Caltrain just a month ago or so before the largely  Democrat Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Board meeting.. 

Not a Democrat has stated nor gives a damn apparently to replace the deadly masss killing machine, Caltrain, segment from the future planned station in Santa Clara to the current Millbrae BART station, about 30 miles to complete BART around the Bay as it is currently envision.

Why?  The so-called High Speed Rail boondoggle in which its 2008 Proposition 1A vote was based on fraudulent figures for ridership, cbuild osts, partnerships, unlikely "reasonable" low fares, and enormous taxpayer subsidies to build and worse, operate to SF .

Because Democrats are well known to justify their actions by putting their "ends justify the means" mentality before human life and more efficient and effective mass transit system with its higher farebox recovery,i.e., BART.. 

Oddly, not even Democrat fundraisers, humanitarian award winners, nor d high-tech executives who  lost employees on Caltrain's deadly outdated tracks and live in wealthy West of I-280 towns don't speak up to advocate and/or contribute funds to politicians who could support replacing the outdated Caltrain Killtrain with the safer and more effective BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit system).

This latest tragic death is totals to at least the 331 deaths since 1995 when Caltrain announced formally that its standard tracks will be used by a future, yet to be proposed--or voted on  High Speed Rail between San Jose and San Francisco.

Could this situation not be considered a government-sponsored "mass killing"--over time, yet this Democrat politician-dominated region does nothing toto complete grade-separated, non-congesting, non-greenhouse causing electrified, safer BART around the Bay (BAB).

Interestingly, a subtle concern expressed to me about finishing BAB, that is, on the wealthier Peninsula is expressed as the "cultural" differences of BART riders from on the other side of the Bay, especially the communities of generally lower income and more diverse racial minorities (as if they don't already come to Peninsula communities by automobile)..


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