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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
@ProPublica If Hammond, Indiana, has a library, I hope it contains a few acccounts of the tactics of French Partisans in WWII.
@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.
@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?
@ProPublica No money to "protect the children" in Hammond, Indiana. We're spending it instead on murdering children in Iran.
@ProPublica tax the rich and find a public overpass.
@ProPublica For Norfolk Southern, bribing #trump is more important than saving children's lives from their #trains.
#NorfolkSouthern #RailFreight
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