{"id":68184,"date":"2018-10-09T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68184"},"modified":"2018-10-09T18:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T23:48:48","slug":"the-carnage-continues-apace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68184","title":{"rendered":"The Carnage Continues Apace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Line (aka &#8220;The Vomit Comet&#8221; &#8211; ride it late on a weekend night or early on a weekend morning to find out what that means.\u00a0 Or&#8230;don&#8217;t) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/10\/08\/investigation-underway-after-green-line-train-strikes-pedestrian-in-st-paul\/\">has claimed its second life this year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The crash occurred at Syndicate Street and University Avenue about 4:30 p.m., according to Metro Transit spokesman Howie Padilla. Two men were crossing the tracks at the intersection, when a westbound train struck one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The man who was struck by the train was taken to Regions Hospital, where he died about 5 p.m., Padilla said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash disrupted Green Line service between Hamline and Western avenues until shortly after 5:30 p.m., according to posts on Metro Transit\u2019s Twitter account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s on top of another, two blocks away, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/01\/28\/light-rail-accident-halts-green-line-service-between-fairview-and-western-stations\/\">last January<\/a>, and at least 2-3 more previously.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a project I may need to take on &#8211; going over the human factors problems that make the Green Line such a death machine.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the six (last I checked) on the Blue Line, and makes the Metro Transit trains&#8217; body count roughly 11 times that of Minnesota carry permit holders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Line (aka &#8220;The Vomit Comet&#8221; &#8211; ride it late on a weekend night or early on a weekend morning to find out what that means.\u00a0 Or&#8230;don&#8217;t) has claimed its second life this year: The crash occurred at Syndicate Street and University Avenue about 4:30 p.m., according to Metro Transit spokesman Howie Padilla. Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68188,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68184\/revisions\/68188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}