Life is more sacred than trying to get to a meeting. “It’s just not worth it trying to get over a track when a train is coming. “Take a breath,” suggested Fisher of the request to slow it down and wait at a train crossing. Last year the Broward County Commission approved $15.5 million for development and a study, and directed the county to seek federal dollars to construct the first segment of a commuter rail link that would provide local train services between Aventura and a point south of the New River in Fort Lauderdale, a distance of 11.5 miles.Ī study is expected to be available next month that would describe the different financial options of the rail gaining access over the New River by bridge or tunnel, said Broward Mayor Lamar Fisher. Nationwide, a person or vehicle is hit by a train every three hours, according to Operation Lifesaver, a 50-year-old, nonprofit public safety education organization dedicated to reducing collisions, fatalities and injuries at highway-rail crossings and preventing trespassing around railroad tracks.īut Gregory Stuart, the executive director of the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization, said the fatalities are not only people committing suicide, but people simply impatient to wait for the train to go by.Īnd the railway is only going to get more busy, he said, referencing Broward County’s commuter rail project along the FEC, a project proposed to offer commuters even more options.

‘Alone and scared’: Broward County demands answers to bus service woes for the disabled She was struck by the Brightline train that was traveling southbound on the tracks, and the impact of that collision caused her to fall into the adjacent tracks, where she was struck by the FEC cargo train, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s Office detectives say witnesses saw the woman walk around the protective barrier on Hillsboro Boulevard and head northbound on the Brightline train tracks as a cargo train was passing southbound on the adjacent east side track. Over the weekend, a woman was killed when she was hit by a Brightline in Deerfield Beach. In 2022, there were 31 incidents of cars being hit on the rail in Broward on the FEC tracks, 22 of those resulting in fatalities, according to the MPO. Data is not yet available for the first five months of this year. Lucie, Indian River and Brevard counties. In December it announced $20,000 in federal money to help keep people alert to the dangers of its high-speed trains in an online campaign aimed at people in Palm Beach, Martin, St. To help reduce crashes at train crossings, the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization is launching the “Don’t Risk It” campaign to raise awareness that motorists must stop at railroad crossings and shouldn’t try to beat the train.Īnd last summer, Brightline received $25 million as part of a joint federal and state initiative for safety upgrades along the FEC corridor, including new crossing gates, signal systems, pedestrian gates, pavement markings and roadway profiles. Three city mayors, and Broward County’s mayor, unveil a new educational campaign Monday. In fact suspected it had take up a second job, and worked in a soup kitchen on weekends.īut that doesn't connote their stubbornness if this is an uncommon interpretation of the phrase.In response to those accidents, Brightline has installed infrared detectors to warn engineers if anyone is lurking near the tracks so they can slow down or stop, and added more fencing and landscaping to make track access more difficult, according to The Associated Press. The main reason I am asking is that I am wanting to use this in a novel to imply somebody who won't give up no matter what (I'm not after alternatives though), and wanted something punny like:

I'm a native speaker though, so I didn't think it was language barrier. Perhaps the connection of Asses (the animal) being stubborn contributed. My question comes from my perceived notion it meant 'Won't give up' with the 'ass' being a Synecdoche for the person in question, that is it's not just the ass that won't give up but the whole person. I've tracked down a potential folk etymology of 'butt that won't quit' from the phrase 'legs that won't quit', but I can't attest that in a dictionary anywhere.

Ass that dont quit