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News Wire: Lac-Mégantic residents renew call for rail bypass on anniversary of fatal derailment, fire

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Posted by zugmann on Saturday, July 8, 2017 8:32 PM

GERALD L MCFARLANE JR

There's a timetable for the bypass, it'll get done when it's planned to get finished, the townspeople just want it sooner...so, I'd suggest if they want it sooner then they can pay for it.  It's not like they have to worry about the same scenario happening right now anyways, unless you think a trains locomotives could blow up and level the town(i.e. - currently no oil trains run through town).

 

That's a pretty cold and heartless statement.  A lot of people died due to no fault of their own.  I don't blame them for wanting a bypass sooner.   

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by GERALD L MCFARLANE JR on Saturday, July 8, 2017 2:34 PM

There's a timetable for the bypass, it'll get done when it's planned to get finished, the townspeople just want it sooner...so, I'd suggest if they want it sooner then they can pay for it.  It's not like they have to worry about the same scenario happening right now anyways, unless you think a trains locomotives could blow up and level the town(i.e. - currently no oil trains run through town).

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Posted by Miningman on Friday, July 7, 2017 5:07 PM

RME- No money left-gave it all away to sleep deprived individual.

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Posted by Euclid on Friday, July 7, 2017 5:05 PM

What type of rail traffic runs through there today?  As RME suggests, I believe they could solve the basic runaway and catastrophic fire problem with a solution other than a bypass. 

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Posted by RME on Friday, July 7, 2017 4:44 PM

It's not so much that they're calling for "construction" of the bypass as they're calling for the Canadian Government to get the lead out of their apparently leisurely progress toward constructing it.

I dimly remember a story a few months ago that said the alternatives for the bypass had been selected (five alternatives with two preferred?) and that environmental impact was at that time well in hand.  Now we are hearing, if I read the semantics in the story correctly, that construction won't even begin until 2022 or later.

TC or Trudeau's minions could arrange for a waiver to put in a couple of emergency tracks with derails to address the immediate problem, couldn't they?

I have a suspicion it might actually be cheaper to move the town than construct something on the required scale of a 'meaningful' bypass improvement in that area... some of it will be reminiscent of the work on the Lackawanna Bypass; be interesting to see if they think it out as carefully as Truesdale et al. did.

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Posted by Ulrich on Friday, July 7, 2017 2:52 PM

Given what they went through, I don't blame the town for wanting a bypass. I know the standard argument: the railroad preceded the town, but that was before the railroad became an oil conduit.  

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Friday, July 7, 2017 11:14 AM

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec – A group of Lac-Mégantic residents is again calling for the construction of a rail bypass around the scarred Canadian city on the fourth anniversary of a disastrous derailment and fire. "What shocks the population,...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/07/06-lac-m%C3%A9gantic-residents-renew-call-for-rail-bypass-on-fourth-anniversary-of-fatal-derailment

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine

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