Lmao, money concentration wins over all the things human.
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LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 5 weeks agofreight carriers usually get priority.
They’re not supposed to. Passenger traffic on Amtrak should be getting priority but the rail lines basically say “fuck it” and do what the want.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Some asshole Mba/lawyers figured out that if they made the trains physically too long to fit onto the pull outs, then they could just shrug and say “golly, we’d love to pull over for you, but we just can’t lmao” and it’s perfectly fine. It’s called Precision Scheduled Railroading
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Seems like an easy solution would be fining the shit out of them for that. Or requiring an expensive permit for overly long trains.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Well, see, for that to happen, you’d need politicians who aren’t complicit in trying to rip the wiring out of the walls. Also, regulating railroads is hella complicated in the US because we’ve got a bunch of ancient laws that give the railroads more rights than God, to the point where you almost stop being a citizen when you step onto railroad right of way. We COULD deal with that, but it’d be almost as much of an al.ighty fucking lobbyist shitshow as when we try to regulate oil.