It's a bloody god thing that none of these Journo's appear to use surface -transport.
They'd all have a heart-attack and die of fright in a car!....just imagine! less than twenty FEET lateral separation and maybe a couple of hundred fore and aft
but wait!....there's oncoming traffic, loads of it, with less than 50 feet separation!!!!
The horror! the risk! and rumour has it, the licence provision requires little more than the ability to read and write.
As for RAILWAYS.....huge conveyances hurtling along 2 narrow strips of steel at ~60 mph....do they realise that means a 120 mph collision is only prevented by the gap of less than six feet, between these two flimsy sets of rails.
One has to wonder at the IQ level of both writer and target-audience for their output of drivel.
1.6 MILES isn't even a near-hit, let alone a "near miss".