It has been almost two years since Brightline’s sleek, brightly colored trains began flashing through Vero Beach, and the apocalypse Indian River County warned against in its unsuccessful multimillion-dollar fight to block the train has not materialized.
There’s been no pedestrian slaughter, no patients dying in stranded ambulances, and not even the forecasted lengthy traffic backups.
While there have been four deaths and a handful of injuries along the tracks since the train began passing through Indian River County, waiting at a crossing for a Brightline train as it races back and forth between Orlando and Miami is more like waiting for a red light to change than settling in for the excruciatingly slow passage of a long Florida East Coast Railway freight…