Safety Inspector Fired for Finding Too Many Defects Could Cost #BNSF Railroad Millions - Dude was fired for reporting the truth and his supervisor got a $20k bonus for getting rid of him and protecting corporate profits over passenger safety. Surprised? I didn’t think so. #Railroads #RailroadSafety #transportation #BurlingtonNorthernSantaFe #CorporateGreed https://jalopnik.com/safety-inspector-fired-for-finding-too-many-defects-cou-1850817520

Why is the EPA response to the East Palestine train disaster so crappy? Too much deference to local authorities and too many Republican budget cuts.

' There is much to do. But the E.P.A. can’t do it without more people and money. After years of funding cuts, the agency is doen to 15,115 employees this year, from 18,110 in 1999 ... Congress needs to approve more funding for this crucial agency. '

#EastPalestine #NorfolkSouthern #EPA #Ohio #environment #RailroadSafety

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/east-palestine-ohio-epa-dioxin.html

Roads and other US transportation infrastructure is publicly owned. #railroads should be, too.

A for-profit owner will always cut corners to increase profits. #railroadsafety simply doesn’t matter to them.

@tltroup @bojacobs
There may have been an article listing toxic train disasters on Counterpunch years ago. A search turned up this other valuable article.
> its not just oil company and carrier greed for cash generating cargo like fracked oil to blame for the current disasters, you can also chalk up the railroad’s desire to save just a little more fuel, at the expense of safety, for the mess we are in.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/09/exploding-trains-and-crude-oil/
#RailRoadSafety #TrainDisasters #Counterpunch

One thing that troublese is that we can alert people, but we don't have effective communication methods with wildlife yet.

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-train-derailment-updates-bf5a60de2243cd6f7f730096aa33294c

#Ohio
#NorfolkSouthern
#TrainDerailment
#VinylChloride
#FossilFuels
#RailroadSafety

Of course it's from #Japan.

#GiantRobots #Mecha #Robot #Robotics #Railroads #RailroadSafety #VirtualReality

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/japanese-railway-company-giant-robot

Did you know:

1. NASA promotes air safety through its successful and confidential Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), which started in 1976.

2. Based on its success, in 2010 NASA partnered with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to promote railway safety by creating its similar Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS).

Both are managed at NASA Ames in Silicon Valley.

https://c3rs.arc.nasa.gov/

#NASA
#aviationSafety
#railroadSafety

RT @jeffchao228
@ninaturner They also Risk #RailroadSafety which could lead to even bigger problems like Derailments that can even have Explosive Chemicals in return, reason that #RailroadStrike, #RailStrike Needs to happen, it also provides the need for a huge #GeneralStrike that comes with this in whole.

@dctrjack @ct_bergstrom @mmitchell_ai

See my objections to #RailroadSafety discourse below. https://dair-community.social/@trochee/109373450662350071

@timnitGebru @solalnathan #RailroadSafety