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[quote user="mudchicken"] (1) Betting the quiet zone at this location is abolished.<img alt="My 2 Cents" src="/emoticons/icon_smile_2cents.gif" /> (2) NTSB is going to have a field day with the accident and the politicians that pushed the current program are about to get their tailfeathers scorched. Those of us that at least were involved in the initial rulemaking hearings saw the inequities of the initial programs. The railroaders, at least where I was, raised serious objections (UP's Public Works Engineer, and for that matter BNSF's, where I was spoke up loudly and often) but were over-ruled by the political hacks in the rulemaking process. The decicision process is weighed far too heavilly in the local, non-railroader's favor. (as in weighed in favor of the un-educated and largely emotional...the makeup of the evaluation/decision teams has to change somehow.)[/quote] Are you saying that it was a mistake to approve this particular quiet zone in Midland, TX, or are you referring to all quiet zones?  If you mean just the one in the case of this crash, what is there about it that should have prevented it from being approved?
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