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As an airliner, lobbying for tightened RR regulation seems like a handsome roi. /takes off conspiracy hat

• _delirium 15y ago
  I wouldn't be too surprised if that's part of it. In the failed early-90s project to build high-speed rail in Texas, Southwest Airlines spent a lot of money and litigation making sure that all "rail safety" rules would be interpreted as strictly as possible, opposing any streamlining or exemptions granted to the project that would've made it more sensible. Other main players are the freight railroads and the railroad-workers' unions, neither of which cares too much about passenger rail (freight is much bigger business, on both the corporations' and the unions' side).
  • jrockway 15y ago
    Ironic as Southwest had to ground 44 planes because they were flying them without the federally-mandated safety checks. Also, one of them "opened up" in flight. "All is fair in LUV and war," I guess