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BooStickTime t1_jao1aom wrote
The people who live in the area of the latest toxic spill will be so happy to hear that bit of news
smauryholmes t1_jaohsev wrote
Wait until you find out what the 4 million big rig trucks operating in America do to our air and water.
We need more trains, not less.
Deus_Novi5 t1_jaq45c3 wrote
Facts are wrong because they hurt my feelings!
Assorted-Fruit OP t1_jap1p7s wrote
Not denying there was recently a large derailment that caused an environmental hazard, but it seems an idea against trains and rail safety is being pushed. The amount of people injured/impacted by trains still is tiny compared to truck freighting.
liaisontosuccess t1_jaobe3q wrote
anecdotally, based on YouTube vids,
I'd think the leading cause of derailments were big rigs trying to cross the tracks and getting stuck.
HortaNord t1_jaovbfh wrote
or government's lack of investment in safety measures
Assorted-Fruit OP t1_jap1evy wrote
The idea here is that they are reasonably safe, and when things do go wrong, it's not necessarily due to lack of safety measures. Most of these are human error, on a small scale.
halfacrum t1_japi47u wrote
The safety measure is not overworking the human operators.
jeffinRTP t1_jao5t1e wrote
Don't let the people believe it's capitalism or the queen of the company's fault for the wreck
LTaldoraine_789_ t1_jaob0p4 wrote
you should compare trends by company, before and after precision scheduled railroading
gudamor t1_jaowpmq wrote
I have faith neither in self-reported data from railroad companies nor in the captured regulatory agencies determinations of causes.
Assorted-Fruit OP t1_jap188m wrote
Literally half the data here is from a "watchdog" group that studies rail safety.
st4n13l t1_jaoyowa wrote
Do you have contradictory data from a more reliable source?
Vodik_VDK t1_jap1qkr wrote
IF WE MAKE TBE TRAINS FASTER THEY'LL HAVE LESS TKME TO DERAIL ITA XOMMON SENAE SUPPOET GIGH SPEED RAOL NOW
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Assorted-Fruit OP t1_janxpw8 wrote
Data collected from the US DOT Federal Railroad Administration and Operation Lifesaver
https://oli.org/track-statistics
https://railroads.dot.gov/accident-and-incident-reporting/train-accident-reports/train-accidents-cause
I used Excel to created the trend line graph and pie chart after cleaning up the data to be more clear and condensed. Items combined and finished in Adobe Illustrator. Some of the categories for the pie chart were combined/reworded to fit the infographic, but the main cause is still conveyed accurately in my opinion.
Quick note about the derailment pie chart: The majority of the reasons are categorized as “other”, but these were hundreds of reasons with little occurrences each. I included all of the major reasons as labeled amounts, and also cherry picked the vandalism statistic as that was something I thought some people were curious about. I do want to make note: vandalism is not the next lowest cause after ‘motorist deliberately caused” category, I simply wanted to make sure the percentage for that was actually shown.