transportation – Page 6 – People's World

July 17, 2015 By PAI

President Obama named the board, at the request of the unions representing the railroad's 4,000 workers, on July 16.

July 15, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Environmentalists and rank-and-file railroad workers took to the streets protesting continued transportation of oil trains.

May 29, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Railroad Workers United reported that the first protest about safety, or lack of it, on rail lines occurred in Chicago on May 27.

May 20, 2015 By PAI

Why was there a one-person train crew and no Positive Train Control system?

May 14, 2015 By John Wojcik

By mid-day Thursday, at least seven people were dead with more than 200 injured, in the wake of Tuesday's Amtrak train derailment.