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1 posted on 02/21/2023 11:57:46 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Their wusses. LOL Our DOT secretary won’t quit even when our trains spew out toxic chemicals.


2 posted on 02/21/2023 11:59:45 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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3 posted on 02/21/2023 11:59:59 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Size matters?


4 posted on 02/21/2023 12:00:14 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Fredrico Fellini had no comment.


6 posted on 02/21/2023 12:02:36 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just postill clickbait!)
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This problem was obviously caused by Global Warming. Heat makes things expand. And the trains, being made of metal, will expand more than the tunnels.

Okay, so that’s settled. Now where do I go to collect my Nobel Prize in Physics?


7 posted on 02/21/2023 12:04:37 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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I bet some low-level technical designer told them the engines were too big for those tunnels...but the info did not survice the corporate chain of command.


8 posted on 02/21/2023 12:08:36 PM PST by citizen (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people - John Adams 1798)
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“Two top Spanish transport officials have resigned”
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They got off easy just resigning, they should have been prosecuted for being criminally stupid (or criminally corrupt). I mean how incompetent can you be to do something like this? It boggles the mind.


9 posted on 02/21/2023 12:09:03 PM PST by jimwatx
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Oi vehhhhh! PC til it hurts


10 posted on 02/21/2023 12:11:56 PM PST by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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I guess our government is not the only one that can screw things up.


11 posted on 02/21/2023 12:12:23 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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The Spanish government certainly doesn’t want to piss off the northern part of Spain...


12 posted on 02/21/2023 12:17:12 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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Ream the tunnels to standard size.


13 posted on 02/21/2023 12:18:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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If this happened in California the Governor would decide to spend 2.8 Billion to widen the tunnels.
Labor Unions would be thrilled.


16 posted on 02/21/2023 12:23:15 PM PST by lee martell
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This is what happens when government is in charge of standards and data, especially with infrastructure.


17 posted on 02/21/2023 12:25:07 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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It seems people in government in some places actually get fired.


18 posted on 02/21/2023 12:26:19 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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At least they didn’t find out the hard way.


19 posted on 02/21/2023 12:27:03 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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“The trains could not fit into non-standard tunnels”

Wait a second... Doesn’t this mean the tunnels are at fault for not matching the ‘standard’ vs the guys who ordered the train cars?

But being Spain. The people who quit already got their kickbacks and everyone takes short cuts about everything anyway.


20 posted on 02/21/2023 12:27:34 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Does Spain have Affirmative action/Diversity hiring?


22 posted on 02/21/2023 12:33:51 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Secretary of Transportation?

Sounds like Spain got Buttplugged.


23 posted on 02/21/2023 12:52:46 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Are these Italian officials formerly French railroad operators?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/french-railway-operator-sncf-orders-trains-too-big

24 posted on 02/21/2023 1:05:01 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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26 posted on 02/21/2023 1:12:26 PM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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