• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      8 months ago

      Oh I immediately thought hamstrung like how the education, healthcare, and mail systems are hamstrung by a government that refuses to invest in them

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          They also need to be given priority over freight rail, instead of the other way around like it is now. Plus the super-long freight trains they’re using unsafely mean they can’t use existing sidings.

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            8 months ago

            My understanding is that passenger trains always had priority over freight. The long freight trains are their way around giving priority. Can’t give priority if you’re too long to give it

            • Cethin
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              8 months ago

              Yeah, I’m 90% sure you’re right. Legally Amtrak gets priority when possible, so freight companies just make it impossible to sidetrack so Amtrak has to. It’s bullshit, but it’s not like our government is going to stop them.

          • misspacfic@lemm.ee
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            8 months ago

            yeah this is an easy fix to improve the service 100x, almost overnight. outside of the northwest the main reason people give me for not using the train as legit transportation is the fact that they are often egregiously late.

      • Rickety Thudds@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Okay! Seemed a little ambiguous. I hear people still claim that rail should be privatised because “the government doesn’t know how to run a business”.