re: #80 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump’s busy getting his golf game on at Trump Bedminster, and he’s threatening to come to NYC for some reason next week. Guess he’s decided that he would like to screw up NYC transit some more by dropping in and causing gridlock.

It’s not like he’s going to do anything to help improve infrastructure here or anywhere else in the US. All his talk about infrastructure has been just that - talk. There’s no substantive policies here, and the infrastructure we do have continues to fail.

Meanwhile, an effort to get truckers and train engineers tested for sleep apnea has been scrapped by the relevant federal agencies despite a clear link between the condition and deadly accidents.

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There’s more of that freedom we’ve come to expect from Trump and the GOP. They’re going to scrap a rule that would save lives. Metro North, which had one of these kinds of deadly crashes now tests all its engineers and found that 11.6% of the engineers suffered from sleep apnea.

Guess we’ve got the freedom to have a 10% chance a rail/subway/tractor trailer driver is going to fall asleep behind the wheel and cause loss of life.

Let me guess, this is under the aegis of preventing unnecessary overregulation stifling independent entrepeneurship?