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> How do you know the crash was the result of missing regulations? "“Would ECP brakes have reduced the severity of this accident? Yes,” Steven Ditmeyer, a form
by slantedview 4y ago
> How do you know the crash was the result of missing regulations?
"“Would ECP brakes have reduced the severity of this accident? Yes,” Steven Ditmeyer, a former senior official at the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), told The Lever."
https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rules-before-ohio-derailment/ https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rule...
- themitigating 4y agoThis regulation was put into place during the Obama administration ( I don't know if it was implemented) then the Trump administration removed it.
- passwordoops 4y ago>then the Trump administration removed it. And the Biden administration, with control of both houses, couldn't put it back in place? Republicans suck, yes. But Dems aren't any better and partisan bickering results in no one held accountable
- themitigating 4y agoFalse equivalence. Both sides arent equally bad and voting is a choice between them