Every lib concern is fake NPC bullshit. Every R concern is a very serious problem & top priority.
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I want to see the actual numbers come the end of the year. Because something tells me it wasnt any more than normal, it was just the media started reporting on them more. Like what happened with the supposed jump in fires at food processing plants that turned out to be in line with the average.
The only unusual derailment was the one in Ohio, and that seems like a situation where I am going to blame the railroad, since if my dad's hunch is right (from experience as a retired firefighter), it sounds like the railroad may have been cooking the books resulting in the wrong technique to fight the fire, causing the chemical fire we all saw.
So the reality is (and you can look this up via the fra, and relevant bodies in Canada, etc) derailments are generally on a downward trend year after year after year.
We get about 1k+ here per year in the US now, and you don't hear about 99% of them because they're minor. The news just hypes shit up.
That said, the Ohio one was bad, but I'm not sure it was avoidable. I'm not a chemical engineer, but from what was explained to me they could have done what they did, or potentially had it blow up on its own. Im not sure what was worse.