tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9122514974659083342.post4225203006067778506..comments2024-02-02T22:30:20.736-05:00Comments on Chemical Facility Security News: Long Term Rail Routing SolutionsPJCoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390039682578324978noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9122514974659083342.post-72945820758879452102009-03-24T11:58:00.000-04:002009-03-24T11:58:00.000-04:00PJ: There may be good reasons to build new $10 bil...PJ: There may be good reasons to build new $10 billion-dollar rail lines around major cities like DC, as the National Capitol Planning Commission proposed. But they brazenly and disingenuously pretend it is for security reasons. But you also mis-characterize the situation re the immediate re-routing by interchange of TIH cargoes which 10 major city councils and 2 state legislatures proposed to legislate after 9/11 raised the stakes of urban poison gas transit. [Railroad lobbies have so far defeated all protective re-routing mandates, and not one of the 46 US target cities is protected, fully 7 years after the 9/11 attacks.]<BR/>You don't need to use smaller railroads to go around most major target cities. To avoid Washington DC-Balt-Philly-Newark-NYC, you can use Norfolk Southern's I-81 corridor. Across the continent, to avoid the whole Great Lakes Cities corridor of Buffalo-Cleveland-Toledo-Gary-Chicago; or the heartland corridor of St Louis-KC-Denver-Salt Lake, etc. there are available major railroad alternatives. Please do not suggest that there is anything standing in the way of major TIH security risk reductions except brute railroad power -- they refuse to do it. Their "reason" is: it is the beginning of "re-regulation". You think any Americans have learned in the last year that we cannot afford to do without a government in the face of utterly reckless major corporate decisions? Duh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com