Information About Hazardous Materials Passing Along Railways Not Released To Public

They roll through at night, passing highly populated areas of the county, like downtown San Diego: rail tanker cars sometimes carrying potentially hazardous materials.

“There is no question that places like Petco Park are directly in harm’s way,” Eric de Place, Policy Director with the Sightline Institute, an environmental policy organization based in Seattle, said.

NBC 7 Investigates asked the owners of the local rail lines, North County Transit and Metropolitan Transit System, what chemicals and other materials are moving through the region. North County Transit owns the rails from Orange County to the Del Mar area and Metropolitan Transit System, owns the rails from Del Mar to San Diego...

...In 1996, a train carrying LPG and propane derailed and caught fire in Wisconsin. The fire burned for more than two weeks and caused thousands of residents to be evacuated. A National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) sketch of the accident scene shows how the tankers were scattered across the derailment area....

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Ken Notes: And yet we fight track improvements? I am not sure I understand...