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Old 12-18-2017, 10:43   #1
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Inaugural High-Speed Train Crashes on First Passenger Run
Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Amtrak train derails, dangles over interstate in Washington state

https://usat.ly/2AWIh40

This doesn’t bode well for Amtrak.

Prayers out for those involved.

I used to live just south of there and drove under that bridge at least twice a day for years.
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IIRC, Amtrak has taken some serious hits over the last few years with crashes.

Not sure what the issue is...aging fleet, hiring issues, etc., but it would appear they need to get their act together.
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Never mind link didn’t work
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If that is where I think it is there is no get around close by either.
Not a great one but there are actually a few.

Mounts Road and I-5 is crash site.

Detours will be out of Lacy around to Tacoma
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It’s bad!

There are fatalities.
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Looks like Northbound I-5 is open and still moving so I would expect WADOT to create a split lane from Mounts Road or in DuPont down to Nisqually (Exit 111) or just pull Jersey barriers north and south.

Eye witness just reported seeing it all happen. Train jumped the track at a sharp curve.

This will be human error and speed was a factor.
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Sounds like the news is going to get worse before it gets better - quite a few fatalities being reported. Thoughts and prayers for those impacted.



This is going to get some hard looks. The 2009 stimulus package from the Obama admin dumped well over 10 billion dollars into high-speed rail projects.

Obviously, some folks said "pfft, why" and the mayor of Lakewood said as much just two weeks ago.
A few "republican cities" cancelled the projects as unneeded and excessive.

In 2014 the NYT even ran stories about the Obama-legacy transportation project and the Washington Examiner ran a story earlier this year about it.
Detractors said it was an unneeded waste and they were written off as partisan hacks - now all is left is trying to figure out how to blame this on President Trump.
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