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You just act like nationalizing railroads improving the situation is a given. That it's an incontrovertible fact that doesn't need to be supported, it's simply self-evident. It isn't.

I'm not saying there isn't a problem. I'm saying your solution is guaranteed to make it worse. If the ACE is as efficient and apolitical right now as some people are talking about, it won't be for long.

I'm not sure how you think that a government which refuses to enforce law against the railroad companies now, would be likely to enforce law if it had even more power over them.

Them blocking this is bad, but things spreading that wide is actually good. Once it gets into the air, dispersion is the only way for it to become safe. Concentration is how you get debilitating or lethal doses. Of course, most politicians probably have no clue about that.

I have literally never seen railroad tracks like that anywhere here in America. Even abandoned lines that no longer run don't look like that. Not that I can't believe it's that bad in some places, it honestly just makes seeing something like that all the worse. What the hell?

That's a very sweeping claim. Care to support it?

And this is always the result of a dedicated regulatory body. The #1 concern of every railroad company is making sure that they have influence over that body. Meanwhile Joe citizen won't even have that body on his radar as a concern until something goes horrifically wrong, like now. The...

Regulations are not a solution to this kind of problem, enforcement of accountability is. If the parties responsible for this cannot be forced to pay a fitting price in court, why would a regulatory body be any more able to enforce appropriate accountability?