If you had the chance to permit the building an elaborate High Speed Train system that linked every Major city together, but you knew that doing so would increase the amount of real life Train Murder Mysteries by 300%, would you still do it?
small price to pay for my personal convenience
there were 2 passenger deaths and 8 employee deaths on trains in the whole of 2024 according to the national safety council
if we assume that Train Murder Mysteries applies solely to train passengers or employees then a 300% increase would range from "still zero" to "30 people per year"
meanwhile, studies suggest that increased public transit can cut traffic fatalities in half, so even if we only consider the ten interstate highways with the highest fatality rates (2,260 deaths in 2020), beesmygod would be saving on net approximately 1,100 lives per year, though that could go much higher depending on the extent of the rail network thank you beesmygod, your personal convenience has made you a national hero
