Brightline doesn’t trigger deaths; hoping for native station
Not like others, I’m counting the times till Brightline service begins. I keep hope an area station will probably be constructed so I can use the service.
I’ve learn letter after letter after letter from of us satisfied that Brightline causes, has brought on and can trigger multitudes of deaths all alongside the route. Others have written concerning the prolonged delays brought on at crossings.
Brightline doesn’t trigger deaths. These deaths, whereas tragic, had been brought on by drivers and pedestrians who had been on the tracks on the “flawed time.” Drivers blame GPS instructions for inflicting them to show onto the railroad tracks. Drivers and pedestrians will bypass the railroad crossing boundaries. People will stroll down the tracks with out the flexibility to get out of the best way quick sufficient.
Women and gents, this isn’t a tough idea. It’s somewhat simple to keep away from being hit by the practice, and we don’t want elevated/raised tracks. We don’t want fences alongside the tracks on either side.
All we have to do is to remain off the tracks away from railroad crossings and thoughts the crossing boundaries when activated.
So far as any delays at crossings are involved, right here’s one thing to think about: A Brightline practice is made up of 4 Siemens Enterprise railroad automobiles with two Siemens Charger locomotives, one on every finish, with a mixed size of about 490 ft. A practice passing at 80 mph travels 490 ft in 4.176 seconds and a practice passing at 60 mph travels the identical 490 ft in 5.56 seconds.
Michael Goodfellow, Wabasso
You, your family members by yourself with regards to Brightline threat
I recognize Laurence Reisman’s current Brightline column. Our lives will probably be threatened when Brightline goes operational with 32 trains per day at 110 mph.
At 89 deaths recorded whereas solely at 79 mph, we’ve got to determine if we wish quiet zones with no audible warning, 32 alarms a day. Excessive pace rail (125 mph) is well-regulated, however Brightline is working at 110 mph, avoiding rules.
Brightline is allowed to journey at street stage and don’t should “shut” or fence off the hall. This protects cash, but it surely prices lives.
As you drive round city, word the assorted intersections and pedestrian crossings. Contemplate “Johnny” who’s 16 and simply began driving. His mother and father ask him to go to Publix at U.S.1 and twelfth Avenue in Vero Seaside. It is 5 p.m. and site visitors is heavy. He’s a conscientious driver obeying site visitors legal guidelines.
Heading east, he approaches Publix and anticipates with the ability to get via the intersection/gentle for his left flip into the car parking zone. The automobile in entrance of him stops brief leaving him on the tracks. The gate drops and a practice touring at practically 160 ft per second is barreling towards him. He both hears a practice horn or doesn’t if we select quiet zones. He freezes and joins the 89 different victims of Brightline.
There are various intersections and formal/casual pedestrian crossings the place 110 mph trains remove any margin for errors. For Grupo Mexico, monitor house owners, and SoftBank Group, the Japanese multinational holding firm proudly owning Brightline, Johnny, in addition to anybody else harmed by Brightline, is nothing greater than a trespasser, partly resulting from Brightline’s option to journey at an unregulated pace and unwillingness to use the security requirements which have been demonstrated mandatory to guard our lives.
Watch out on the market. Till the Florida Division of Transportation engages in regulating the hall, you and your family members are by yourself.
Paul Westcott, Vero Seaside
Alma Lee Loy Bridge repairs make sense to anybody?
Let me see if I’ve this straight.
The state of Florida goes to restore 400 ft of the Alma Lee Loy Bridge. That restore might need taken 2.5 years if the bridge had been fully closed. Nevertheless, the state gave Vero Seaside Metropolis Council the choice of taking 5 years to complete if the bridge had been solely half-closed at a time. The council properly selected that choice. However 5 years?
The George Washington Bridge took 4 years to construct. Its size is 4,760 ft ― virtually 10 instances longer than the Loy Bridge restore. And it was constructed 90 years in the past.
The Golden Gate Bridge took 4 and half years to construct. Its size is 8,981 ft ― greater than 20 instances the size of the Loy Bridge restore. And it was constructed virtually 90 years in the past.
The Empire State Constructing took one 12 months and 45 days to construct. It’s 1,454 ft tall ― greater than 3.5 instances taller than the size of the proposed restore of the Loy Bridge. And it was constructed 92 years in the past.
Severely?
Lorne Coyle, Vero Seaside
Why not cease unlawful parking in downtown Stuart?
Stuart downtown parking is unbelievable.
Indicators are posted that no pickup vehicles are allowed. I noticed eight vehicles parked illegally. I suppose individuals cannot learn.
The place is legislation enforcement?
Barbara Nickas, Stuart
Caregiver seeks Mast assist in Alzheimer’s illness battle
One in two individuals over age 85 could have some delicate cognitive impairment or dementia.
My mom and my husband’s father had dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s. We each watched as they slowly deteriorated earlier than our eyes, robbing them of any high quality of life and robbing us of our great mother and father.
Lately, the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers authorized protection for Meals and Drug Administration-approved Alzheimer’s therapies and can now supply full protection for Leqembi. This determination is essential to me as a result of now my husband has been recognized with Alzheimer’s.
Congressman Brian Mast should help all these impacted by Alzheimer’s. He ought to co-sponsor H.R. 619, the NAPA Reauthorization Act, in addition to H.R. 620, the Alzheimer’s Accountability & Funding Act. Each payments would construct on the progress remodeled the previous decade by persevering with to advertise speedy analysis and enhance the supply of medical care and companies for individuals residing with Alzheimer’s and all different dementia.
We should take motion on this horrible illness. The extra individuals we will help keep a traditional life, even when it’s just for a few months, the higher. My mother and husband have each participated in analysis.
We’d like a treatment!
Lesley J. Vestrich, Stuart
Blame what’s occurred to educating career on two phrases
With the beginning of the brand new faculty 12 months and the annual “we’d like lecturers” outcry, I’ve to touch upon educating particularly.
I’m an skilled trainer, though just for a number of years early Nineties. I’ve the equal of a grasp’s diploma in vocational, one class shy of an elementary schooling diploma and a full bachelor’s in historical past.
After I tried getting employed 1992-1994, there could be virtually 200 candidates for each opening. Why? You didn’t actually go into educating to get wealthy. You entered the career both as a calling, or for the advantages. Three years and also you had tenure that was virtually inconceivable to interrupt. You might put in 30 years and retire with 48% wage, irrespective of your age. Plus, when you didn’t use your paid time without work, that amassed and paid out at closing wage. Add in you solely labored 1,180 hours a 12 months vs. 2,080 in non-public trade. (Sure, I do know all of us labored many further hours.)
What occurred? Two phrases: Rick Scott.
From day one, he introduced he was going after tenure, retirement and advantages. I met and know many lecturers who voted for him and now complain about what their career has grow to be. It is a true instance of biting their noses off.
Keep in mind, this is similar one that now desires to “sundown” Social Safety and Medicare. Now we have all paid into these applications particularly, so these will not be “entitlements.”
I’m lucky sufficient to have reached a spot the place I nonetheless have six or seven years to work and will probably be safe sufficient. I’d think about going again to educating, however take a look at what the most recent “placeholder” has carried out to the career. I’d make the instant mistake of mentioning the Civil Conflict or the Holocaust, and so forth.
Jeff Hamilton, Sebastian
Watch out for how your senators act on points essential to you
With 58 different retirees, I joined a Zoom assembly to debate Social Safety, Medicare and Medicaid with one among Sen. Marco Rubio’s aides.
The matters included value of residing allowances, the Windfall Elimination Provision and Authorities Pension Offset, prescription drugs and different issues, in addition to the way forward for these applications for us and everybody else who will probably be the place we are actually.
The highest 1% lies to us about these applications as if we’re beggars. In truth, we paid for these advantages simply as everybody pays for advantages with another insurance coverage coverage, which these applications are. Entitled, we paid to be whereas Congress borrows from the $2.3 trillion Social Safety Belief Fund to function the nation.
At Zoom launch time, we had been suggested the aide had a scheduling battle and wouldn’t be a part of us.
You learn proper.
What number of studying this voted for Rubio within the final election? How a lot harm can he do to our insurance coverage advantages earlier than he runs once more in 4 and a half years? Can he do much less for us earlier than then? We should discover out. It’s time for everybody studying to spend the little time it takes to see how he voted on what’s essential to us, personally.
The identical applies to Sen. Rick Scott and for anybody who will probably be on the poll subsequent time.
We hope to have a Zoom assembly with Scott, however probably his aide. His contempt for us “on the dole” exhibits when he tells us how he raised himself by the bootstraps from poverty to grow to be who he’s.
Who’s he? He was the CEO of Columbia/HCA when it made the most important Medicare fraud in historical past.
His marketing campaign for reelection launches quickly.
Richard C. Silvestri, Fort Pierce
Forgiving, forgetting turns the matter over to God
In his letter Aug. 7, Ronald D. Roberts took problem with my earlier letter, wherein I stated nice non secular attainment is obtained once you not solely forgive somebody, however you identify to neglect the hurt they did to you.
Roberts wrote: “By forgetting you might be setting your self up for future hurt.”
That sounds sensible. Most individuals function like that. However what we are inclined to neglect is that once we forgive and neglect we are actually turning over the state of affairs to God Almighty.
Keep in mind, the Bible teaches that vengeance is the ability that God retains. God has not delivered that energy to us. By turning the state of affairs over to God, you might be placing your belief in God.
I’ve discovered that God is reliable. God handles issues significantly better than we. Most individuals don’t imagine within the supernatural. They’d somewhat deal with the whole lot themselves.
Look world wide. How properly have we carried out issues? In coping with the supernatural powers of God, it’s like flying a kite. Should you hold holding onto the string and by no means let go of the kite, it can not attain the heavens.
Placing your belief in God to deal with a state of affairs that you just forgave and forgot permits God to take over the state of affairs.
Stanford Erickson, Vero Seaside
DeSantis vs. Worrell: Save democracy or make America like Florida?
On Aug 8., Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended State Lawyer Monique Worrell from her duties within the Ninth Judicial Circuit. Her constituents elected her with 67% of the vote. DeSantis accused her of not doing her job by under-prosecuting criminals in her jurisdiction.
Has DeSantis dismissed one other duly elected state lawyer as he did with Hillsborough County State Lawyer Andrew Warren for political acquire to earn his occasion nomination for president? I say sure. DeSantis slogan is: Let’s Make America like Florida.
Does America need to be like Florida? The price of property insurance coverage in Florida is unaffordable. Florida’s colleges face a trainer scarcity due to the politicization of schooling. The governor and the Board of Training have restricted college students’ capability to take crucial pondering programs comparable to AP African American Historical past and AP Psychology. Now, the educating of Shakespeare will probably be restricted in public colleges.
The tradition wars the governor desires to take nationwide will not be promoting. Is that why he has suspended one other state lawyer as if he’s making sensible choices in Florida’s finest curiosity whereas campaigning for president? How can he droop lawyer Worrell when he signed into legislation a paperless allow carry in Florida? Who’s tender on crime?
DeSantis must confront local weather change, reasonably priced well being care, schooling and reasonably priced housing points. Florida has leprosy and malaria. However but his slogan reads: Let’s Make America like Florida.
I firmly imagine DeSantis is attempting to jumpstart a failing presidential marketing campaign with Worrell’s suspension. Who’s responsible of utilizing his workplace for political acquire, Worrell or DeSantis?
We will’t afford to lose our democracy to a dictator. Will you be a part of me in saving democracy via the poll field and talking out?
Valerie Brant-Wilson, Vero Seaside
Political recreation: Prepared for a number of sure or no questions?
Do you suppose {that a} lady who’s raped after which finds herself pregnant ought to be capable of get an abortion?
Do you suppose that each one states ought to have cheap background checks on all individuals shopping for weapons?
Do you suppose that millionaires and billionaires ought to pay the identical taxes as the center class does?
Regardless of document earnings, 55 of our largest firms paid zero taxes however nonetheless acquired many tens of millions in refunds. Do you suppose that the tax code on giant firms needs to be modified?
In 2022, the massive oil firms made a revenue of greater than $200 billion and nonetheless acquired $20 billion in authorities subsidies. Do you suppose the subsidies needs to be eradicated?
Should you answered sure to any of those questions, then my query to you is: Why would you vote Republican?
Please don’t give me the reply that we might find yourself just like the socialist nation of Cuba if we vote for a Democrat. Cuba is a socialist nation underneath a dictatorship.
Different socialist nations which have democratic management are like Sweden, Norway and Denmark. And Iceland appears to be doing simply high-quality.
Common well being protection is such a fancy beast that solely 32 of the world’s 33 developed nations have been capable of make it work. Who do you suppose is the oddball?
Dennis Powers, Sebastian
