Comment on Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight

• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The regulation on passenger rail is MUCH stronger then on freight.

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• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s freight rail. Freight rail is a full blown late-stage capitalist hellscape. Aging infrastructure that hasn’t seen maintenance since the New Deal, companies that refuse to update equipment because paying out lawsuits when it breaks is cheaper, overworked employees who aren’t even allowed to call out sick, etc…

  Compared to that, passenger rail is a fucking pipedream.

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  • llama@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But doesn’t Amtrak share the same rails with freight? Sure maybe the trains themselves are better maintained but if the rails themselves are in bad shape the train won’t get far.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well I guess it’s not mechanic failures of the train that derails them.

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