Brightline email excerpt, 2/24/22
Members of the FRA, FDOT, FHWA, and local authorities met yesterday to collaborate on safety in our communities.
Safety is our top priority, and on Wednesday, we were pleased to attend the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Safety Town Hall in Palm Beach County. Brightline, along with the other passenger railroads and freight railroads were all in attendance along with local officials.
This safety workshop was extremely important to us as we know it takes community cooperation to combat the number of rail incidents, and the FRA called for the community to come together to help solve the problem.
Brightline continues to prioritize safety and implore community members to stay off the tracks. We’re continuing to take steps to increase awareness around railroad safety by implementing law enforcement outreach, deploying safety ambassadors to high-trafficked crossings, and installing VMS signs at rotating crossings.
Additionally, we’ve created and distributed tri-lingual materials and rail safety pledges, run thousands of PSAs on radio and TV, and invested millions of dollars in safety improvements such as red-light cameras as well as cutting-edge rail crossing safety technology. Our red-light cameras alone have issued more than 860 violations since November 2021, helping to improve rail safety in the communities we serve.
Click here to read important safety tips from our partner, Operation Lifesaver, a national nonprofit focused on reducing grade crossing incidents and promoting rail safety.