From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Calvin Henry-Cotnam"  wrote in message   
   news:20140713-030048.133.0@Calvin-Henry-Cotnam.free.teranews.com...   
   > John Albert (j.albert@snet.net) said...   
   >>   
   >>It's now been a year since the runaway train disaster in Lac   
   >>Megantic. Yet I've seen nothing about the official report on   
   >>the incident from the Canadian equivalent of the FRA/STB,   
   >>etc. (isn't it called the "TSB" up there?)   
   >   
   > Typically, it can take about a year and a half or more for an   
   > investigation   
   > report to be released by the TSB.   
   >   
   > Want proof? Just take a look at the accident reports on their website.   
   > Go to http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/index.asp   
   >   
   > The most recent one available is for an incident that occurred on   
   > April 28, 2013. This came out on June 11, 2014. A report for an incident   
   > on March 26, 2013 came out on June 17, 2014.   
   >   
   > A higher-profile accident where VIA Rail train derailed and killed the   
   > three crew members in the locomotive on February 12, 2012 didn't come out   
   > until October 9, 2013 - that is 20 months after the accident!   
   >   
   > I would be willing to bet that few people outside of Canada (even outside   
   > of southern Ontario!) even heard of that accident. Lac Megantic became a   
   > world-wide news story. With this high level profile, I highly doubt that   
   > the report will be sooner than the same 20 months.   
   >   
   > Be patient.   
   >   
      
   The more publicity a case gets, the longer the report takes?  This is pure   
   politics.  It gives the public (but not the victims) time to forget the   
   whole thing and makes it easier to ignore the causes of the accident in the   
   first place.   
      
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