Public Comment

Time to Ban the Bomb Trains

Lucymarie Ruth
Friday March 20, 2015 - 02:16:00 PM

Transportation of crude oil by trains is dangerous for our planet, and public safety. In the last few months, there have been more spills than in the previous four decades combined.

Most of the accidents have occurred with trains that were going below the speed limit and using the "safest" cars available. Even if some more safety changes are made, it´s only a matter of time before one of these bomb trains goes off in our town.  

It´s time for local and federal law makers to get out of the pocket of Big Oil, and demand an immediate moratorium on the dangerous practice of transporting crude oil by rail. Not to be too crude about it, or to rail too loudly, the operation of crude oil trains constitutes reckless endangerment of our lives, our property, and our water supply in California by renegade companies like Kinder Morgan, whose officers ought to be in jail. Only I can't find a law in California that makes reckless endangerment illegal. That has got to change.