How is this a scare tactic?

Not if they needed heat. And I'm not spreading any landlord bullshit thank you. I've had the same tenants for 13 years.

Sorry guys, it was me. I was camping and got the bubble guts after eating fried squirrel and hurried far away from my tent before having mud butt capable of clogging any normal commode against a tree. It was fortunate I avoided the swamp ass. With a dump that large, you know I’m the real deal.

You can Uber to Lewistown and pickup Amtrak there.

>Buses. It’s much cheaper and less complex to run buses.

And this is exactly what Amtrak does via thruway connecting services when a demand is there but laying new rail lines is not feasible. e.g. the State of Maine.

Also when I travel to Philadelphia from Central PA, it's always by Amtrak because it's about the same cost as tolls/fuel/parking but there is absolutely no stress involved that comes with driving to Center City. The train is usually at 10 to 20 percent capacity with most passengers hopping on closer to Philadelphia. You sometimes feel as if you are the only one in the train car on the lucky days.

We need a stop in york county too

Wind directions have shifted significantly in the last 48 hours.

So my concerns are less about the actual release of chemicals and the burn off from this particular derailment affecting me (I live ~30 miles from the site) because although vinyl chloride and the results of burning it are dangerous the dissipation into atmosphere and duration of exposure at this distance aren't likely to cause me any effect at all. Interest in wind directions and the constant checking is like "should I be able to smell funk?" rather than "Oh fuck I just got cancer from this."

My real issue here is that this is a result most likely of rail companies that are cutting staff, increasing hours, foregoing maintenance and building longer and more dangerous trains in the name of profit above all, and government backing the rail companies over unions that are fighting for safety of themselves and the communities the trains go through.

Preliminary reports are that this is the result of a mechanical failure, and it was found by a wayside defect detector. The problems here though are that the train couldn't be brought safely to a stop after the defect was detected. Why? And after derailment, all of the safety measures designed into these tankers couldn't properly function to prevent the risk of an imminent BLEVE. Those are issues that I think government needs to stop allowing rail companies to ignore.

Nailed on the head. The mainline from Philly to Pittsburgh has a fascinating history and most of it happened well before SC became a “thing”.

didn’t even think of that… she literally got a job at cvs because my husband sends money so often to his family overseas and she knew this (she used to work at my husbands store before my husband came in as part owner and hated him from that moment because he started keeping count of every dollar that came in and out of the store) now she’s made it her life goal to make his life miserable

Once she get said job at cvs she got his id number and came up to him and said ha I see your license is suspended. Don’t drive or I’ll report you.

Then she proceeded to call the city on the store for it “not being up to code” and it almost shut down the store because the bathroom was the only thing not up to code.

My husband is Arab. She is a white woman. Karen. The most ultimate Karen of Karen’s. But she isn’t racist. Her husband is Moroccan. I think she is madly in love with my husband and hates that he caught her stealing from the store or is just really pissed because some younger guy came in and started running his store and accounting for every single cent and she couldn’t steal anymore.

I didn't know about it until yesterday. Saw that Shapiro was talking about evacuation. Then I saw it derailed Friday. How the hell isn't this bigger news. I'm in Harrisburg area, but that shit can travel pretty far.

Proudly voting for Matt Gergely in the 35th today!

You can buy everyone a Tesla for the cost of rail at this point. (And we are already buying the first 7500 so just expand the program to free cars for all and get rid of public transportation altogether. /s)

Almost all railroads are privately owned in the US save a few lines in the Northeast Corridor. Amtrak is a public passenger service running on private lines. That’s why it sucks. The private freight companies always prioritize their stuff over Amtrak.

Busses handle the difference.

Its cheap and efficient work around of the terrain issue.

Trains are an interesting example of early technology and investment hype. I did not realize this until I read a history of financial bubbles. People used to be really excited about trains so they built way more rail lines than could be justified. There was some serious over-investment. It was comparable to Silicon Valley mania today.

>should be seized and owned by the public

They have been federalized. Amtrak is the passenger service and Conrail is the freight service.

I didn’t even know they ran passenger service from Pittsburgh to Philly.

Also all rail lines in the US should be seized and owned by the public. Maybe then we can actually get decent rail passenger service in this country.

Nah dude. I'm afraid of morons like you having access to them. Guns aren't scary in the hands of responsible and mature people.

I believe in bigfoot. I don't believe in moccasins. I'm not that gullible.

Lease breaking not required. This is landlord scare tactics. It’s what happens when they get scared start telling lies and hope they don’t get caught.

Bigfoot is on the internet? What's his reddit username?

If they pay electric then the tenant would be saddled with the bill. Spreading that landlord bullshit.

Why would a tenant funded repair require breaking the lease? I’d assume my landlord would be in bad faith acting like that.

The last 3 years concentrated a lot of wealth. Even the small businesses saw very little of the money. A friend of mine applied for small business relief the day it was available, they asked for more information that next day and she replied the same day. That was too late. All of the funds were spent.