From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Stephen Sprunk"  wrote in message   
   news:lj3gg6$bi4$1@dont-email.me...   
   > On 16-Apr-14 11:41, conklin wrote:   
   >> The list of hazard materials is NOT public and shared only with   
   >> certain officials, and that apparently does not include elected   
   >> officials.   
   >   
   > Federal anti-terrorism laws restrict that information; being an "elected   
   > official" in some bumfuck town does not mean you're above the law.   
   >   
   >> And the article does state that Federal laws shield the railroads from   
   >> local supervision and this includes, importantly, decisions on routing   
   >> of hazadous materials.  And the officials were threatened with arrest.   
   >   
   > ... because they were committing a crime.   
   >   
   >> And if the RR decides that the best tracks are through a city and not   
   >> around it, hazardout materials go through the city, not around it.   
   >   
   > As with trucking companies transporting the same hazardous materials.   
   > Did you have a point here?   
   >   
   > S   
      
       Cities want to concentrate housing into high density pods, which is   
   highly fashionable right now.  Locally they want to put the houses right on   
   the NC RR, which carries much hazardous loads.  And, they will eventually   
   share that route with transit.  So local officals need to know the routing   
   of highly hazardous materials when housing considerations are made.   
      
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