They do this shit at least 3 times a week here in south Mississippi, and its a fucking freight train with over a hundred train cars usually.
They do this shit at least 3 times a week here in south Mississippi, and its a fucking freight train with over a hundred train cars usually.
The premise of the question is wrong. Trains need fuel like every other means of transportation. They can help consumers and logistics operations save on their individual fuel cost if they make use of rail rather than roads. A great passenger network saves fuel over all because people share a large passenger carrier rather than individually driving mostly empty cars, especially SUV tanks with only a driver behind the wheel.
Trains also don’t “park” on open lines. There is a reason why it stopped and it’s most likely safety. So it doesn’t hit another train or runs into rail damage, construction crews, people, a shrub fire, etc. Since you say this happens regularly, It’s likely the train infrastructure is old. Maybe it’s a combination of those problems with too tight running schedules creating a bottleneck. Bring this to your local political leaders, complain to the train companies.
I don’t know how hot it is there. What are the rules on not idling your engine while waiting in traffic jams and at railroad crossings? And if drivers are supposed to turn their engines off, this may be a clusterfuck caused by a train but blame must be disturbed. Even if it was hot (and unless I had infants or infirm folks in the car), I would switch off my engine these days because of your president’s adventures in Iran.
Trains stopping on roads is a locally significant problem in the USA. They do just park for hours while cars are shunted around.
One major part of the problem is that the state and city governments have no power, and the federal government gave them permission, and (obviously) doesn’t care about the freight rail network at all, never mind passenger rail.
Its not even hot here yo, especially not today, it feels really good to be honest. Yes, we just rolled our windows down and shut the engine off while we waited, but for whatever 'murica first™ reason or whatever, half the vehicles around us apparently have nothing better to do than piss away fuel money and continue contaminating the planet…
Trains don’t park on open lines? Excuse me, that’s exactly what I’m posting, they most certainly do, multiple times a week here!
This time they blocked both intersections in our area, blocking even the typical detour people are accustomed to using when this shit happens.
And it’s also a shared rail, shared between long freightlines and also much shorter Amtrak passenger lines. At least Amtrak doesn’t park and block a hundred vehicles across multiple intersections…
You call this parking. It’s a bottleneck. There are solutions. Underpasses. Overpasses. Better rail infrastructure. Unfortunately, higher taxes.
Write up your frustration and take it to your local, state, and federal politicians.
How do you even do that? Like literally write to politicians?
I’m literally signed up for Ezell’s Edge, but it’s just an automated publication, they don’t read a fucking thing.
The easy way would be to find your local, state, and federal politicians and post on whatever social media they’re on. That’s a couple of old school Google searches away.
Local governments has meetings, some of which will allow petitioning for action. I think the rules will differ there by region, as they do for state level, would be my guess. Maybe somebody else could point you at the right place. Your reps in DC tend to have phone lines to voice your opinion. All of them receive mail by USPS. Chuck all your f-bombs at me before you write them;) you want to sound reasonably frustrated to them.