Where's the fire, Mr? Pull over!
Posted on 12/19/2017 6:48:29 AM PST by KeyLargo
Audio: Mayor predicted people will 'get killed' on Amtrak route "It’s virtually inevitable that someone is going to get killed that wouldn’t be killed otherwise," Lakewood Mayor Don Anderson warned WSDOT about the new high-speed route. Author: Susannah Frame Published: 10:37 PM PST December 18, 2017
Two weeks before a high-speed Amtrak train derailed near DuPont, Lakewood Mayor Don Anderson warned the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) that the route could be deadly without additional safety precautions.
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"Ismay often sailed on his ships during their maiden voyage, the Titanic being no exception. When the Titanic hit the iceberg Ismay was rescued from lifeboat c. Many said that he should have gone down with the ship in the knowledge that it was under his encouragement that the ship should cross the Atlantic as fast as possible. Ismay was “showing off” his new vessel to the world. Despite Ice warnings the Titanic crossed the ice field at 22½ knots. One wonders if Captain Smith was ordered or perhaps suggested to maintain speed by the “Owner” of the White Star Line and hence ignore ice warnings or at least to underestimate them."
http://www.titanicandco.com/ismay.html
I know they will blow this out of proportion. I got the sense from him he was talking about pedestrians, not derailment.
When you take a 30mph curve at 80, the chances of fatalities increase.
Bigly.
When you take a 30mph curve at 80, the chances of fatalities increase.
Bigly.
That is exactly what he was talking about. Derailments were never a consideration of his.
Washington State DOT representatives were onboard the train. That reminds me of the Titanic, where there were allegations that the ship was traveling too fast in an ice field, because the owner wanted to show off the time taken to make the crossing.
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I’m reminded of the chapter in Atlas Shrugged where Federal bureaucrats demand a train traverse a long tunnel with a steam locomotive. The engine shuts down midway thru due to lack of oxygen and the train is then rammed by a military freight carrying weapons. The collision sets off an explosion collapsing the tunnel and severing intercontinental rail traffic.
“When you take a 30mph curve at 80, the chances of fatalities increase.
Bigly.”
Portland to Seattle...democrats can F up a train wreck.
It Was Claimed That Traveling by Train Could Disintegrate People 1820.
http://www.cracked.com/article_22224_8-plainly-stupid-fears-that-held-back-human-progress.html
Good point.
I never understood white liberals’ child like fascination with high-speed rail.
Got to do with where Choo Choo Go...(Mongo)
Courtesy ping.
He’s a Republican but you’d never know it from the article.
They like the fact that once you are on the liberal train there is no escape!
“When you take a 30mph curve at 80, the chances of fatalities increase”
What is it with these train throttle guys? Same thing keeps happening time and again. Bunch of idiots.....
Public transportation is the great leveler in their pinched brains - the privileged whites are forced to travel with Tyrone, Cesar, and Laquisha.
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