It's still an infrastructure problem if your transport vessels are causing calamity constantly (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Truck blew up I-95, train blew up east palestine, boat blew up Baltimore harbor. Need regulation on the transport companies right the fuck now.

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[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

Mayo peter can fix bread prices but he can't fix transportation

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Capitalists are very good at price fixing.

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

TBH the sheer mass of a loaded cargo ship means that the bridge wouldn't have withstood it regardless

But the just means that there should've been multiple safeguards to ensure that the collision didn't occur in the first place, so it's still a classic yank failure

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

Yeah, if a car hits and kills a toddler, the problem isn't that the toddler wasn't built strong enough to resist a car. The problem is that there weren't enough systems and enforcement in place to stop a car from getting into the same space as a toddler.