Regulatory failure in freight rail traffic
A discussion of an important symptom of "regulatory capture" in the freight rail industry -- the persistent reality of blocked rail crossings. Recent stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post document the consequences for ordinary people, often poor and often black, sometimes leading to serious outcomes for people trapped in their neighborhoods ...
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https://undsoc.org/2023/07/22/regulatory-failure-in-freight-rail-traffic/
Understanding SocietyRegulatory failure in freight rail trafficOn any given day some 7,000 freight trains are in motion around the United States, with perhaps 70,000 individual freight cars and intermodal units in transit daily (link). (Here is the US DOT Fede…