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A woman fell asleep while operating a light-rail train in San Francisco today. She was in control of a packed train going 50 mph through a tunnel. It jolted hard enough to slam riders into walls. But here’s the part no one wants to talk about: Under U.S. rail...

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Whenever certain campaigning around social media bans or Martyn's Law is brought up, I'm reminded of this Mitchell and Webb radio sketch from 2005. Here's a transcript: -- Those are the headlines at 5.09 and for an immediate reaction to today's event I think we can speak to Tom Hilton hello Tom? uh hello Chris Pal here from Radio 4, thanks for speaking to us. Can I ask what your response is to today's announcement that Rail North East will not be funding the laser assisted train early warning system? uh well yeah I personally think it's a shame So it's shame on the management, shame on the government? well I suppose but look - can I just say I'm really not the best person to talk to about this, I mean it's weird you even happen to to call me. You see by a spooky coincidence I actually lost my wife in a train crash. Yes, we know. one that exactly this kind of system could have prevented. That's why we were in touch with you Tom. oh! oh right. blimey that does seem a bit... almost... ghoulish. Well, no it's it's because you've got personal experience of a rail tragedy that your views are so important. really? I would have thought that it was because I've got personal experience of a rail tragedy that my views should be dismissed out of hand. No, no, look... Would you say that, to you, safety is by far the most important issue facing the rail network? well of course I would my wife just died in a train crash. Thank you. but you really should talk to someone else it's impossible for me to have any objectivity at all. Right, but, but if spending the three billion on the system could bring back your wife, that would be worth it? well, obviously, although I must stress I lack - any - objectivity. Nevertheless, what would you say to the minister? What would your message be to him? my message would be: minister, good luck in judging how to allocate your finite resources given the many competing demands you face.

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Get ready for more East Palestine Ohio situations Rail lobbyists representing industry giants like Union Pacific are spending big money to pay off regulators to automate track inspections, even allow for trains carrying chemicals to drive over broken tracks for 72 hours before being fixed “Keeping railroad tracks safe is supposed to be their job. — But the biggest railroads want them to do it less. The class one railroads have requested a safety waiver to reduce visual track inspections from twice a week to twice a month. Nobody in the rail industry on the executive side can explain why that's rational. Big Rail, it seems, wants to go automated. They use this creative language of automated track inspection” “Every single day. We have the opportunity for an East Palestine three times.” “The carriers asking for those inspections to be reduced to twice a month. 75% reduction in the required inspections” “There is another concerning aspect of the waiver request. same waiver would allow railroads up to 72 hours to address a defect after it is identified. For years, it's required that defect to be remedied. — You're going to be running trains at full speed, 65, 70 miles an hour over that defect while it's still in the track for up to three days. I don't think anyone living around a railroad track or within a mile or two of the railroad track wants to have chemicals running over defects or wants to have passenger trains running over defects in their area. It's dangerous. It will cause derailments and it will cause death and it will cause harm and it will destroy the environment.”

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