Tracey Mumford
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1,190 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 12 Jun
Tracey Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A local official said the impact was so intense that some bodies were found hundreds of feet from the crash site.
Transportation officials said the incident didn't seem to be the result of human error, speed, or signal problems, calling it extremely strange.
They said their initial investigation is looking in part at whether there had been a break in a section of the track.
The crash forced authorities to temporarily suspend train service across large swaths of the country.
Spain has the second longest high-speed rail network in the world after China.
In San Francisco, the iconic Golden Gate Bridge has been marked with a heavy legacy ever since it was completed in the 1930s.
It's been a magnet for suicides.
For decades, an average of 30 people each year jumped from the bridge.
But records show that last year, the first full year with new netting in place, there were only four deaths.
And from June to December, there were none, potentially the longest stretch in the bridge's history.
The net installation was a long-term project pushed for by family members of people who died at the bridge.
It's modeled off a solution used in Bern, Switzerland.
And the word nets actually doesn't really fully capture the infrastructure that's been installed.
It's a dense mesh of taut marine-grade steel.
that sits about 20 feet below the public walkway on both sides of the bridge.
The project cost over $200 million.
Critics have wondered if it will simply steer people elsewhere, but proponents of the nets don't think so, pointing to a study from back in the 70s that showed how most people who'd gone to the Golden Gate to jump and had been persuaded not to were still alive years later or had died of natural causes.
Motoko Rich is part of the team at The Times covering the games.
Those are the headlines.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
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