Never Waste a Crisis

An Amtrak train derails in Philadelphia and before it skids to a mangled, deadly stop the cries arose that it was poor infrastructure that caused the crash. Perhaps a tad premature as it turns out. Black box evidence now shows the train hit a 50 mph curve at 102 mph and from there the laws of physics took over. That'll do it. The only question left is why the Sam Hill the engineer was going that fast. 

Generally, I am in favor of trains where they make sense and they do make sense in the Northeast with its many dense population centers. Let's focus on safety, however, and not on politicizing everything with bogus statements. If everything is politicized, safety suffers because no one knows if it's a real issue or one that is made-up. There is a safety issue in this crash but it centers on the human factor, not the infrastructure.

www.nationalreview.com/article/418328/shameful-rush-blame-amtrak-crash-our-infrastructure-crisis-ian-tuttle