Hey, folks, @maximillian_alv here, thought you should see these photos a railroad worker sent me today: ONE day after Congress preemptively broke railroaders' strike & did nothing to stop rail carriers' destructive business practices, 2 Norfolk Southern trains derailed in PA & WV pic.twitter.com/LRjo5As4Kg— The Real News (@TheRealNews) December 3, 2022
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.
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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.
Hey now, how else are these yachts supposed to be bought?
Ambitious entrepreneurs should just innovate and build their own rail network across the country :ancap-good: