What’s behind train derailments in the US? | Fault Lines Documentary

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[@emandas5640]

Al-Jazeera didn't show up humanitarian disaster in Africa countries.

[@AgapeIV]

Im growing quite sick of America not caring about it's citizens. This is a travesty. Someone please help US in the US.

[@paulomilan515]

We are too divided. Maybe if you tell them that drag queen derailed the train then they will care but Americans don't seem to care about each other as much as they care about ideological conflict. Only when we put tribalism aside and unite will we be able to address the issue.

[@TatyComo]

You think anywhere else on planet government cares for its citizens? I do not know of any country that really cares, but only for making money.

[@DR3ADER1]

Nope, let it die. Europe, Asia, Africa and Arabia have their own problems to not deal with and ignore as is.

[@gladysover5368]

Where is the US media?? Thank you Al Jazzera

[@paulomilan515]

Bought by billionaires

[@gladysover5368]

@@paulomilan515 yep

[@joyfullydreaded1371]

​@@paulomilan515Owned by the billionaires too.

[@paulomilan515]

@@joyfullydreaded1371 I wish 🤞

[@emmynewman4260]

ohio resident here, months later only living a couple hours away the health risks and damage this has caused will never be repaired. our government covered it up quicker than it happened

[@peanutbutterandjelly1609]

My Daddy was an engineer on Southern Railway for many years which I think he liked pretty well but then Norfolk bought them out and I think that’s when the changes started happening. He would always be talking about something new they were doing that didn’t make sense, etc.

[@kaypee4704]

It's all about $$$$ and Profitable Politics in the USA.....that's how everything works here.....

[@Aloh-od3ef]

I don’t think America has invested in its trains since the 1800s 😂😂

[@ianhomerpura8937]

They will prioritize the shareholders first and cut costs before allotting much needed money for capital outlay and maintenance. That

[@blehtbh]

Then what's Amtrak

[@HereInPA_Hagen]

The non-response of the US government to this catastrophe that has ruined an entire town, and likely the health of its citizens is one of the most shameful things I’ve seen in my 72 years. I live in PA. And in the many months since then, what has been the response? A huge silence.

[@julie.1081]

Here's scary fact from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Stats. There are, on average 1,705 train derailments per year. But how many do we actually hear about?

[@AgapeIV]

Greed is going to have us all sacrificed.

[@AgapeIV]

Someone please help us in America.

[@DR3ADER1]

No. Lie in the bed you have made, and rise with fleas biting your skin a thousandfold.

[@KasiVids]

Fck America

[@jcymngo]

Leave. You will find the developing much more welcoming to you than Americanis to its immigrants.

[@dylpickel8460]

I’m an American and I think we need to help ourselves

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

A massive Asphalt Plant next to my subdivision burnt down and the black smoke and particulate was brutal, I can't imagine Vinyl whatever burning!

[@AgapeIV]

Stephen Lester.... he said that black cloud, when they were burning all that stuff. As to say this was not an accident.

[@wasimshaikh1665]

I used to do remote freelancing for a guy who used to design temporary structure for railway tracks in US. He didn't do anything just used to pay me half of his salary to do work for him. That guy later promoted to design head lol

[@bettymagpali5079]

36 derailed trains in the month of April 2024

[@michaeltb1358]

It is cheaper for the rail companies to accept derailments than to improve maintenance and safety standards. In most other countries the government sets the standards.

[@AvrlDwn]

THOSE DOCTORS ARE A DISGRACE TO MEDICINE!!! Words that hit!

[@senyongadavid902]

I remember those words in plasic surger documentary

[@brianlove8353]

The greatest country in the world kidding me

[@gemamima24]

This happened in 2023?? Great journalism work, these issues are not covered nearly enough.

[@CursiveDragon]

After several years of closely working with a rail yard, all of this is true. CSX ain't any better.

[@D8099.]

I’m confused. Towards the end the guy says “only more fines will stop bad ceos” really? Is that all? We are talking about knowingly putting millions of peoples lives at risk, are we not? Profits will always outweigh fines but prison time. Well. Of course they probably have politicians in Thier pocket. Of course they do it’s one of the oldest industries in the country.

[@stevenikitas8170]

This video is very deceptive. The US freight railroads were deregulated in 1980. There were many more derailments before deregulation because the government dictated so much of the railroads' operations that they were losing money, neglecting safety and in danger of going out of business. Since 2008, the same government has forced the railroads to adopt a complex nationwide $15 billion Positive Train Control system. This has sucked vast amounts of capital out of the industry, leading to more accidents than we might otherwise see.

[@AlanWolf-d7l]

This toxic ash cloud went over southern Ont Cdn Ag area

[@americandream74]

Profits over safety is not what is wrong here. Someone us behind all of these derailments across the country.

[@nickhomyak6128]

No economic interest should ever be placed above the reverence for life; but that is what we have in a free market. The recent train wreck resulted in free market deregulation, as it cargo of Vinyl chloride being used to make even more plastics not less has spread harm and sickness; as we see the plastics about us everywhere That citizens is the free market, making our lives better? Not only is vinyl chloride used in plastic production, it requires mercury to make it. Cancer one would supposed is spread by free market products made with vinyl chloride and mercury.

[@TangledUpInBlue631]

We vote them in. We can rid ourselves of them just as easily. Register and vote. Deregulation begins in Washington, dc.

[@laurajones2032]

WTH. Vote💙

[@dennisvazquez2140]

Organized crime is responsible for most train derailments in the USA. This could be true for India too.

[@namename-qb5xe]

So why is al jazeras doing this? Just to gain some credibility? Well I guess this program will get to the answer better to have derailments than wasting money on maintenance

[@AgapeIV]

Class 1 more like Class 0 Trash

[@samipatel7118]

First

[@emandas5640]

Help and need African humanitarian aid

[@slobodangrasic5649]

The same as in 1999 in Serbia. Only, it wasn't trains then, but NATO bombs that were targeted at the petrochemical industry in Pančevo on April 4 so that the Americans could see for the first time what happens to the cloud of vinyl chloride when it is released into the atmosphere. At that time, they intensively recorded, probed and studied that cloud and I guess they learned something based on that, especially about dioxins. It was just one of a series of experiments on the environment and living things, including depleted uranium. Only, we didn't whine and wail then, but we endured it all with our heads held high.

[@richardnixon4345]

Trump to the rescue

[@toerag1242]

It's akin to Project 4.1. post 1945, now They'll have to get those Anthropoids grey suits for Hospital Assessments & send Them Savages Crimble Cards fm the Dr Camerons of these latter days 😂🏞️

[@peggyjoseph3812]

@stauscoup