'Trump’s Transportation Department scuttled a safety measure that would have minimized, even prevented the disaster. But why hasn’t the Biden administration tried to revive it?' writes MichaelDalynyc
The Trumpoids are blaming President Joe Biden for theeven though Former President Trump scuttled a safety measure that would have minimized, even prevented the disaster.
The brake rule in question required that trains transporting hazardous materials be outfitted with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes, which the Federal Railroad Administration described back in 2007 as “capable of preventing derailments and shortening train stopping distances.” But the Republican-controlled Congress applied a different calculus regarding money and safety. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota led a successful effort to have the rule put on hold pending an appraisal by the Transportation Research Board and the Government Accounting Office . That was to be followed by an “evidence-based” appraisal by the secretary of transportation.
The legacy of Trump valuing money before lives continued with another derailment that would have been at least minimized. This one came on Feb. 3 in East Palestine and resulted in a scary release of hazardous material from a 50-car train belonging to Norfolk Southern, that same railroad that was first to test the ECP Brakes three decades ago.
Our current transportation secretary should have already visited the scene when J.D. Vance showed up there on Thursday. Vance posted a video of himself standing in what appears to be a polluted creek.
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