2d ago

Train carrying possible hazardous materials derails in Palo Pinto, Texas: Officials

abcnews.go.com

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We back to derailment season? Thought we were just getting started on planes falling from the sky season.
- It makes for a nice accompaniment to wild fire season.
  
  I thought everyone had Fire Season Fatigue.
  Need a new crisis already.
When you privatize important service like freight trains and let corporations maintain them, they're going to value profit over anything else.
So why spend money to avoid a crash?
If you fix anything before a crash you pay for it, out of your profits.
If you wait for a toxic spill, insurance pays for the spill and the government pays to repair that section of rail.
These are going to keep happening.
- Privatize the profits, socialize the losses!
- Even more so, if your competitors, assuming you have any, gamble and don't spend on saftey, you can't either or you will lose. So it isn't the gest that wins, it's just the luckiest.
possible hazardous materials
And we'll never have the answer since everything good in the government got cut. People are either going to have never existed or will die from democrat diseases.
- The public officials seem to believe there are hazardous materials on those cars, and Union Pacific even sent their own HazMat team to the site. Carriers keep extensive records of what the cargo is, where, and how much. After an incident, not making that information immediately and freely available to the public is unacceptable and irresponsible.
  Shame on Union Pacific, these local officials, and the state and fed for not mandating transparency.
Four railroads have asked federal appeals courts to throw out a new rule that would require two-person train crews in most circumstances, saying the mandate is arbitrary, capricious and an illegal abuse of discretion.
https://apnews.com/article/two-man-train-crew-railroad-rule-lawsuit-119dd28129843d3c4b12a1d76f015c9a
If only there was a government agency specifically dedicated to....ah nevermind just look over there! Squirrel!.... Not that one, the live one!
- Ah I’ll just call up the Texas railroad commission. What do you mean they haven’t regulated railroads since 2005?
  Texas railroad commision
Was it carrying passengers to a destination outside of Texas?

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