Johns9h ago
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After we documented children crawling through trains to get to school, the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, said train company Norfolk Southern pledged to help fund an overpass. Now the project is dead after the company reneged, he says.

Norfolk Southern denies making a commitment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/norfolk-southern-train-crossing-hammond-indiana-school-pedestrian-overpass?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says

The mayor of Hammond, Indiana, says the rail company had promised to help pay for a pedestrian bridge after ProPublica and InvestigateTV documented dozens of children crawling through trains to get to school. The company denies making this pledge.

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Show threadBongolian12h ago

@ProPublica For Norfolk Southern, bribing #trump is more important than saving children's lives from their #trains.

#NorfolkSouthern #RailFreight
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Show threadTom Tom12h ago
@ProPublica tax the rich and fund a public overpass.
Show threadAxomamma, Antifa from birth12h ago
@ProPublica No money to "protect the children" in Hammond, Indiana. We're spending it instead on murdering children in Iran.
Show threadJohns9h ago

@ProPublica Train companies all over the world take absolutely everything and don't care about the people they fuck over with their transport.
I'm of the opinion that governments should fine the heck out of them, up to the point that is cheaper for them to build a solution than keeping things as they are.

One can dream, right?

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell9h ago

@ProPublica

Absolutely lovely company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palestine,_Ohio,_train_derailment

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Show threadTrantion5h ago

@ProPublica Why the hell is this legal?! This company knows what's happening, so their actions are clearly wilfully reckless at best. There are so many things they could easily do to solve this, and the politicians who refuse to force them to fix it are responsible too.

Meanwhile, near me, a footbridge was recently installed on a footpath on the edge of a small village, where the route around is 0.5 miles, because we have a policy of removing level crossings as much as possible for safety.

Show threadField Replaceable Unit4h ago
@ProPublica If Hammond, Indiana, has a library, I hope it contains a few acccounts of the tactics of French Partisans in WWII.