I disagree...it LOOKS bad. Yes, it's the responsible thing to do, but the general uninformed public will make assumptions.
Too bad. Let the idiots assume things. It's still never, ever, ever a good idea to talk without representation, and in some professions, you aren't even allowed to until you have representation.
Amen, sister.
Yes, indeed, it's too bad. But it's the truth. People will assume guilt when this is what happens....
If this is confirmed, it adds to the evidence that PTC (ACSES) should have been mandated long ago. I don't think the Class Is are going to get their desired postponement of the PTC mandate (thank goodness).
I thought this is exactly what they are trained to do. Even elsewhere in the industry we are always instructed not to talk to anyone in the absence of counsel. So in normal course of things I would expect them to not talk to "authorities" without having properly trained counsel present.
Eh, if it bleeds, it leads. If you can gin up fake outrage, it gets viewers. (FOX seems especially big with the "let's try to make people outraged" stories/way of reporting them. Lately CNN seems to be Plane Crash Central. I've become very cynical about the news. I generally prefer to read it on the Internet but anymore, many of the big sites make you watch their video.
Human brains are terrible at remembering objective information about a traumatic event, especially when being honest has the potential to impact them negatively, and the longer they wait to discuss the specifics the hazier and blurrier their recollection will become. As they wait to talk their memory will continue to morph and deteriorate until it bears little resemblance to what the same person would have said immediately afterward. While I can sympathize with the engineer's predicament that doesn't change my view that resolving the cause of this event in a timely and accurate fashion is more important than protecting the future employment of the operators. The longer they wait to talk the less helpful their testimony will become.
There's lots of little ones that hardly anyone hears about. The Cardinal derailed on the NEC here in Odenton earlier this year when a wheel broke. All cars remained upright and nobody was injured, the track was OOS for about a week to get things cleared up.
I think that's a little high, if I have the train length right (I think so), then it would take a time of 4 seconds. Looking at the timer in the corner (avoiding any issues with playback speed) I make out closer to 5. Maybe 4.5, which would put it around 100. Still, in the ballpark, and roughly twice as fast as it should have been going.
But...FOX NEWS!
This is why the statement isn't really all that important to me. Let the documentary evidence speak for itself, we'll have plenty of it in this case.
Pretty well, but discussion of that's probably outside the scope of this thread.
Most of them are under construction as we speak. (There were some paperwork delays, so they weren't all quite shovel-ready.) Some are already done and giving benefits (Englewood Flyover.)
Here is what little information they give on their findings:
peterAssociated Press said:
What trillion dollars of infrastructure spending? Care to share a link or source for that claim?
