I've seen this repeated a few times, but it needs to be pointed out: it wasn't Trump who "repealed the regulation to update train brakes".
To make a long story short, there was a Regulatory Impact Analysis that found the cost of ECP brakes would outweigh the expected benefits. So, according to the FAST (Fixing America's Surface Transportation) Act that was passed under Obama, the DOT were required by the bill itself to repeal the requirement.
Something else to note is that ECP brakes were designed entirely around preventing collisions and would have done nothing to prevent an on-rail derailment of the train. Likewise, the fact that every single train car would have to be fitted with ECP brakes (as having a mixture would heavily impact network fluidity) is likely what heavily influenced the cost portion of any cost/benefit analysis. Combine that with the need for operators to spend more time between cars, and any benefit starts to shrink.
Never mind that Biden and Pete Bootychug had two fucking years to do something about if they really thought it was an issue.
It was an axel failure anyway
Hasn't stopped the legacy media from pushing the narrative of it being a "brake failure".
It was a planned attack anyway.
thanks, obama.
Thank you. Some people have been insisting that the regulations caused the crash, and I could never get any of them to put up the evidence.
Tried to do my best to find sources that were as impartial to events as possible.
Like every other issue leftists fixate on, it's a religious thing and you can't make them understand something they don't want to understand no matter how you package it.
Great post. Terrible user name.
The whole electric brakes talking point is an obvious leftist spin but it’ll nevertheless get credulous idiots to believe the mainstream media.
As you point out, it was never a full-fledged regulation by the time Trump became president. Second, even if the regulation existed today, the regulation would not have applied to the train that derailed in East Palestine as it was written. Third, the derailment was caused by an axle failure, not by a brake failure, or the inability to stop the train in time.
Why not post this at pdw?