On the morning of May 13, Eric Alan Hirt — known across Miami's graffiti world as Eson — stepped onto the railroad tracks in Biscayne Park and never made it to the other side. The Brightline train that struck him was one of hundreds that barrel through the corridor each week, through the neighborhoods that line the Florida East Coast Railway: Biscayne Park, El Portal, Miami Shores, Little Haiti. Eson was among at least 194 people killed by Brightline trains since the service began operating in 2017 — a toll that keeps rising even as the company that runs those trains may be running out of time.
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