[Robert A Cook PE]

"Fear" .....

The whole article is based "what if" fears of an event that will be unlikely to occur - though trains have derailed with explosive and irritant and chemically dangerous cargoes before - and would cost tens of billions (the 2-4 billion estimate is a joke)! - of wasted money.

Besides, so you re-route the tracks around San Antonio - not one of the largest manufactoring cities in the world, by the way. Are you going to shutdown the companies that USE the raillines inside the city limits?

If not, then the cargo's are STILL going to be inside the city limts!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

A "what if" doesn't concern me anywhere near as much as trains blocking block after block of inner city Houston where little children have to climb between rail cars to get to school. How many rich white kids would have to lose a limb before something would be done?