Today, December 19, 2017, the US Congress voted for A Trillion dollars in tax cuts for corporations and the rich, but no money for train safety.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, six people were killed, scores injured as a train jumps tracks and crashes in Washington state, December 18th, 2017.\u00a0 The train had no positive train control system.<\/p>\n
Remember the Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line passengers’ train derailed December1, 2013- killing 115 passengers, and injuring another 61. It was caused by a Lack of safety controls.<\/p>\n
Remember the Amtrak Northeast Regional train that derailed in Philadelphia\u00a0 May12, 2015- killing\u00a0 8 and injury over 200, 11 injured critically.\u00a0 It was caused by a Lack of safety controls<\/p>\n
There is a positive train control system that automatically slows or stops a train but they were not installed due to Congressional inactivity, euphemistically know as \u201cbudgetary shortfalls\u201d.<\/p>\n
Other obvious protections would be to have a minimum of 2 engineers in the control room of all trains at all time.\u00a0 Installation of Dead man\u2019s switches in all trains, Speed controls on tracks and trains and a reduction of the work day could all be instituted<\/p>\n
What about the crash that critically injured Tracy Morgan, TV actor on \u201c30 Rock Star\u201d show. It was caused by Wal Mart\u2019s employee\u2019s Truck Driver Fatigue, a preventable condition that is responsible for killing over 5,000 people a year.<\/p>\n
These deaths can be prevented by Legalizing, Regulating and Enforcing shorter working hours,…<\/p>\n