eolesen wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:28 am This is a historic railway operation, not taxpayer subsidized mass transit or intercity rail.It's operating on a publicly owned and taxpayer subsidized ROW and any problems that train has that have a negative impact on taxpayer subsidized services. Not only that, the cost of caring for the injured is picked up by taxpayers. It's all private gain and public risk to allow this company to continue operating as it has.
Given the number of other exemptions in place with other companies for the same company, I'd not be surprised to learn this operator has violated the rules of the excemption.
It's amazing how many people want to argue that easily preventable accidental deaths should be accepted and steps to prevent them should not be taken, and that just because some other country places zero value on human life, everyone else should as well.