Category: default || By jt3y
These pictures illustrate the dangerous conditions at the River Road grade crossing in Port Vue --- caused apparently by a CSX railroad repair project that was never completed.
After a week, CSX still hasn't responded to our question, so the Almanac is going to the state PUC.
Motorists from McKeesport, Liberty and Port Vue have been dodging this mess for more than a month. Some laborers were at the crossing this week, leading to hope that the damage might finally be repaired --- no such luck, as these photos, taken a few hours ago, illustrate.
Please, CSX: Fix your damned crossing!
Good for you!
So I was at the first session of the Guyasuta Fellowship last week, wherein some civil engineers were describing their report card on Pa.‘s infrastructure. The conditions of Penna’s [freight] railroads got the best grade, a ‘B,’ vs the other transportation modes, which got much worse grades.
Some guy asked, “Since they got the best grade, and the railroads are privately owned and operated, maybe we should take a lesson and make other modes privately owned and operated?”
I thought, you know, when the laws still on the books were written by and for the robber barons, and when the railroads don’t even have to get along with the public, let alone serve the public, well, they have a lot less to worry about.
I also read somewhere that freight rail is very prosperous right now, moving inland all the containers full of imports from China.
Julie - July 01, 2006
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