Convicted One mudchicken The newsworkers in the media love the drama they create when an incident happens and then are absolutely stupid on reporting the facts as they grandstand. To co-op a bit of lingo frequently used here...I guess we'd just have to be a NIMBY to properly understand?
mudchicken The newsworkers in the media love the drama they create when an incident happens and then are absolutely stupid on reporting the facts as they grandstand.
To co-op a bit of lingo frequently used here...I guess we'd just have to be a NIMBY to properly understand?
Truck accidents are so frequent the local lawyers advertise on TV that they are specialists in extracting judgement from the trucking industry - in virtually every TV market.
Trucking accidents just blend into the noise of daily life and we don't think about them - unless they happen to us.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
mudchickenThe newsworkers in the media love the drama they create when an incident happens and then are absolutely stupid on reporting the facts as they grandstand.
Safer than by truck any day of the week. The newsworkers in the media love the drama they create when an incident happens and then are absolutely stupid on reporting the facts as they grandstand. Sad case of uninformed public being led around by grossly incompetant media who can't separate opinion from reality - Sad combination. (and then you mix poorly trained emergency services personell on a power/ego/politics trip...look out!)
NS is in some hot water, not all of it deserved.
Why are there so many derailments in the U.S.? The devastating wreck in East Palestine has got me to thinking about this.
There was an article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal (02/15/23) which stated that derailments have actually been on the decline, down from around 1,250 a year several years ago to merely a small tad over 1,000 last year.
Holy smoke~! That is STILL a helluva lotta derailments. WHY?
I realize that many of the incidents, perhaps even a majority of them, are slow-speed derailments that occur in yards. But, if we could even assume that 75% of them are yard-related, that still leaves over 250 major incidents.
Again, I have to ask why. Railroads are supposed to be the potentially safest form of land transportation. There once was day that if you wanted to ship something really dangerous, put it on the rails 'cause then you could rest assured that it would arrive safely. Probably not anymore.
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