I hate when people use the wrong their/there/they’re as much as the next guy, but I think that programming a bot to correct that would be a lot more complex.

If they are too scared to land in person they could, I don't know.... Have a meeting the way the whole fucking world did for a couple of years recently?

It is the politically correct way of saying " we do not answer to peasants" We fucked you for life and you need to get over it.

Wish I could give you an award for this assessment of Pete, i've been getting sick of the attacks for pointing this out.

I think humans would have just found another system to pervert for power and control over others. Maybe it's good that religion actually fills that role instead of science? Not that people in power don't use the results of science for their own ends, but at least we haven't waged wars in its name and forever tarnishing a thing of beauty. Yet.

100% correct. That would require a strong federal response. Biden and Pete have been useless. We knew this was coming when Biden screwed the rail unions a few months ago.

One thing to add, Biden got big donations from that industry as well. Slightly more reported than Trump, in fact.

https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/industry-totals?highlight=n&ind=M04&src=a

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And just like that, the railroad execs found an excuse to not set foot in the toxic town they destroyed.

“Unfortunately, after consulting with community leaders, we have become increasingly concerned about the growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community around this event stemming from the increasing likelihood of the participation of outside parties.” 

The company did not elaborate on the purported threats. 

Initially, the town hall would have allowed the public to ask questions of officials and the railroad, but the event was subsequently changed to “an open house with informational tables for residents,” WKBN-TV reported. It is unclear if that change was made because of Norfolk Southern’s decision to back out. 

Those entities will be active in the remediation and they will certainly be trying to bill NS for their time and resources. But what teeth do they have? What authority do they have to compel NS to do much of anything?

Ok, thanks. Hopefully there is an investigation on this.

Not that I know of, but will respond to this thread if I see anything

Anyone reporting on these town halls that you know of?

>As much as this might be the case, I'm not sure what all he can do beyond complain a bunch.

There are federal and NS dollars to be spent in PA in terms of monitoring and remediation. DEP is part of his admin, so he can do much more than merely complain.

I honestly don't know all the details, i watched a local news segment this morning that included an Ohio state rep who said he was in the situation room when they made the call, and answered from memory

Baltimore are straight murderers and I say this as a guy from Philly.

Is the a pipeline vs train comment?

I don’t know much about either side of the argument, but just guessing here… I imagine maintaining a rail system is cheaper, easier, and less disruptive than maintaining a pipeline.

I have doubts about either method being maintained though.

very unlikely anything comes of this, and if something does happen, it will probably be something along the lines of “hurr durr trains are outdated technology so we’re banning them for this” which is fucking insane

Good. This is a great response by him.

I'm hoping he can exam our rail operations critically also and examine who he can talk to. God I fucking wish Conrail was still a thing.

Meth is one hell of a drug. I had the loser pegged at mid forties.

Transubstantiated !

The supposedly republican owner of the property that requested the sign be taking down? That’s who you’re believing?

500 total people - including support staff - in the DOT look over 50,000+ daily trains.