I wish the NTSB's scope would expand. A truck fucking up a train requires that the root cause be addressed so no truck will fuck up a train in the same way again. But that won't happen because trucks are sold as freedom machines.
But that won't happen because trucks are sold as freedom machines.
That isn't it at all. It's not truck driver "freedom" in the way but the freight railroad companies not wanting to be told they need to remove at-grade crossings. It's because removing an at-grade-crossing is expensive and puts tracks out of commission for a few days minimum.
To fix this problem you have to rebuild either the road or tracks to go over or under each other. Only US area this is being done is California where the State Government has been removing at-grade crossings, with each removal often requiring a long drawn out lawsuit between the State and freight railroads. California has been doing it for almost a decade now in preparation for high speed rail (real high speed rail, not that shit advertised as high speed rail on the East Coast and Florida).
Is this just the second Amtrak derailment of the year or am I forgetting a third?
edit: IT WAS A TRUCK THAT DID IT 😠
I wish the NTSB's scope would expand. A truck fucking up a train requires that the root cause be addressed so no truck will fuck up a train in the same way again. But that won't happen because trucks are sold as freedom machines.
That isn't it at all. It's not truck driver "freedom" in the way but the freight railroad companies not wanting to be told they need to remove at-grade crossings. It's because removing an at-grade-crossing is expensive and puts tracks out of commission for a few days minimum.
https://railroads.dot.gov/program-areas/highway-rail-grade-crossing/highway-rail-grade-crossings-overview
To fix this problem you have to rebuild either the road or tracks to go over or under each other. Only US area this is being done is California where the State Government has been removing at-grade crossings, with each removal often requiring a long drawn out lawsuit between the State and freight railroads. California has been doing it for almost a decade now in preparation for high speed rail (real high speed rail, not that shit advertised as high speed rail on the East Coast and Florida).