Daily_the_Project21 t1_j93oyoi wrote on February 19, 2023 at 12:23 AM

He didn’t "poison a small town for profit."

dgroach27 t1_j93we3v wrote on February 19, 2023 at 1:22 AM

While there are many factors and people to blame, he played an integral role in what happened and his motivation was profit

Pyroechidna1 t1_j94t8e5 wrote on February 19, 2023 at 6:15 AM

Railroads are common carriers. They don’t have the option to not haul vinyl chloride if customers need it moved.

NativeSon508 t1_j95r0jm wrote on February 19, 2023 at 1:34 PM

We could move it through pipe lines but we all know how evil pipelines are!

dgroach27 t1_j94uvof wrote on February 19, 2023 at 6:34 AM

They have the option to ensure that the rails and the trains are operating as safely as possible which they did not do. There were many people who have been saying for years that an accident like this was inevitable because of actions rail companies were taking.

Pyroechidna1 t1_j94vclf wrote on February 19, 2023 at 6:40 AM

Hotboxes have always been a thing. People jumped on this incident as a chance to grab the media spotlight and complain about PSR. It wasn’t a direct act of negligence like Lac Megantic was.

dgroach27 t1_j95vwxj wrote on February 19, 2023 at 2:19 PM

Didn’t Norfolk Southern cut their workforce and not update their brakes? Accidents happen but just explaining away this situation with that completely ignores the explicit decisions made by Norfolk Southern that increased the chance of this happening.

Hot_Ice836 t1_j9i1409 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 2:50 AM

Hey Alan, are you on here downvoting stuff like this that’s true? 😂 guess he does GAF ¯_(ツ)_/¯