{"id":56934,"date":"2016-01-04T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56934"},"modified":"2020-07-28T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T23:01:09","slug":"the-gore-line-and-the-death-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56934","title":{"rendered":"The Gore Line And The Rail Of Death Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another pedestrian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/68440411-story\">has been killed\u00a0along the Rail Of Death\u00a0Line from downtown Minneapolis to the Airport<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ll urge prayers for his family and the people in his life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56943\" style=\"width: 885px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56943\" class=\"wp-image-56943 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/screenshot-www.iridetheharlemline.com-2016-01-03-22-00-12-1.png\" alt=\"screenshot-www.iridetheharlemline.com 2016-01-03 22-00-12\" width=\"875\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/screenshot-www.iridetheharlemline.com-2016-01-03-22-00-12-1.png 875w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/screenshot-www.iridetheharlemline.com-2016-01-03-22-00-12-1-300x249.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/screenshot-www.iridetheharlemline.com-2016-01-03-22-00-12-1-768x637.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/screenshot-www.iridetheharlemline.com-2016-01-03-22-00-12-1-362x300.png 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-56943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map borrowed from &#8220;iridetheharlemline.com&#8221;. I do not ride the Harlem line, but it&#8217;s one of the better maps of the TC rail system I&#8217;ve seen&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This follows on two more train-pedestrian accidents on the Rail of Death\u00a0Line, as well as the Gore Line through Saint Paul, last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If It Saves\u00a0<em>Even One Life&#8230;<\/em>:<\/strong>That brings death totals to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metro_Blue_Line_(Minnesota)#Safety\">Twelve dead<\/a> on the Blue Line of Death in a little over ten years.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metro_Green_Line_(Minnesota)#Safety\">Three dead<\/a> on the Gore Line in about 18 months.<\/li>\n<li>And &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know this at all &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northstar_Line#Incidents\">four deaths<\/a> on the Northstar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s more deaths than in every spree killing in Minnesota history &#8211; and we&#8217;re paying for it.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota doesn&#8217;t need any spree killers, Kim Norton. \u00a0We have our transit system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another pedestrian\u00a0has been killed\u00a0along the Rail Of Death\u00a0Line from downtown Minneapolis to the Airport. \u00a0I&#8217;ll urge prayers for his family and the people in his life. This follows on two more train-pedestrian accidents on the Rail of Death\u00a0Line, as well as the Gore Line through Saint Paul, last month. If It Saves\u00a0Even One Life&#8230;:That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[422],"class_list":["post-56934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles","tag-kim-norton-idiot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56934"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56948,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56934\/revisions\/56948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}