Zero injuries :comfy-cool:
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for the record there are 1704 derailments a year in the usa :thinking-about-it:
generally its pretty safe, only 2-10 deaths each year from derailments despite the number, except for some outlier years with 60 deaths from passenger rail accidents
According to statista (generally reliable stats platform in germany) there have been 68 derailments in the whole EU in 2016, which seems in the ballpark where that should be.
Which makes the 1700 derailments look... very bad.
it's because our rail infrastructure is fucking garbage. The private companies who own the railways make no investments, drive their workers as hard as possible so they can pay them less overall, and generally make scheduling and tracking a nightmare of delays. We are running obsolete rolling stock on obsolete track with tired overworked engineers, no shit everything breaks. The entire rail network needs to be nationalized.
Ambitious entrepreneurs should just innovate and build their own rail network across the country :ancap-good:
1704 WHAT
Why is it so fucking high? This literally doesn't happen at all over here.
Rail workers not getting days off for months at a time and being required to work while sick
I was also listening to the most recent Citations Needed news brief and a guest they had on said the number of rail workers has been cut by capitalists from like 500,000 to 130,000 over the last few decades. So they're doing an amount of work that was originally meant for a lot more people.
And no doubt that contributes to why they are hardly getting any days off and being forced to work while sick.
Deferred track maintenance and decaying infrastructure also plays a role.
Is it still Infrastructure Week in America? Have we moved on to brutalizing the workers to make up for our shitty infrastructure?
Is the MSM going to say that this is a movement that will lead to the resignation of Biden and the complete overhaul of the US government like they do whenever this happens in China?
