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Maybe the Railroad companies that are constantly fucking up need to be Nationalized and taken over by the US Government. With the smaller Railroad companies that aren't being fucked up allowed to expand into other regions under Federal Contract.How? Seriously? They're shipping the contaminated soil away and they manage to cause a wreck and another spill with debris from the previous spill?
Truck carrying toxic soil from East Palestine overturns in Columbiana County
A truck carrying toxic soil from the East Palestine train derailment site overturned just before 1 p.m. Monday in Columbiana County.
No wonder parody sites can't come up with any way to top reality anymore.
Nationalising them would make it harder to sue them when they screw up.
The status quo is not working and has not for the better part of a century. Suing the Railroads never works either they have too much money and outlast all plaintiffs. Better to Nationalize them and put rail upkeep under the Army Corps of Engineers.
Rather then federal controls, I would rather they are run by the individual states if they are taken over at all. I will say though that government control has rarely worked out well these last few decades. Giving more power and control over aspects of people's lives yo an proven inept government seems dumb.
Better than the current Railroad Kabal that get away with literal murder and get a slap on the wrist each time. Google Graniteville incident. And see how no real reform happened. People are fed up and want The Railroads no longer corporate.
This I would agree would be a great start. Actually arresting the negligent company higher-ups would also be good. There is absolutely no way they haven't broken already existent laws.
That's how it should work to begin with, which is also why the government of all things doesn't want to - it's an ideological mandate for the government technocrats to promote rail over other methods of transport, for reasons not unrelated to their dedication to the "climate cause". Tightening the screws on railroads and forcing them to invest more into safety would most likely lead to increasing prices and in fact making them a bit less competitive, and that's the opposite of what they want.
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.
Eh, @Sailor.X specifically said to put Rail under the Army Corp of Engineers, not just some random bureaucrats in DC.
The US military that hasn't made an audit in decades? I mean I'm all for putting the Marines back on cargo trains to cut down on the rampant theft, but big Fed has a pretty abysmal track record these days.
See, I get the doubt about gov agencies, but the Corp of Engineers is one of the few relatively apolitical, still competent, and necessarily-equipped agencies to handle a nationalized rail-network.
Ah I was making a reference to the historical use of using US Marines to guard mail trains in 1921. Maybe they can cut back on the put of control package theft.
As others said, that would be third world level of deseperate bandaid for the problem. Anyone with political will and power to do it could also do it with more proper fixes, like making the organizations who should be doing this to start doing their bloody jobs under threats of full replacement of their leadership.
See, I had never heard about that.
It's something that could allow the corporate side's corruption to be rooted out while the Corp of Engineers acted as at least a caretaker of the rail industry/infrastructure while it was done.
