Join the discussion on the following article:
Report warned NJ Transit of high water storm surges
The problem isn’t global warming, climate change, or whatever the eco-terrorist kooks are calling it next. The problem is anybody with a functioning brain can see NJ Transit is run by government idiots who can’t tell the difference between a flood plain and high land. Has any socialist noticed how fast the privately run, evil capitalist, freight railroads recovered? Or did those evil capitalists pay off the storm to go around their equipment? Actually, I am a bit surprised the government idiots have not blamed the free market for doing that.
Spend money for a report, don’t read the report. Why bother asking for a survey? So the cost of the report was a waste, too.
You would think that whoever asked for the report in the first place would have been interested enough to read it. But maybe he’s no longer there when the time from the request to the time of delivery passes.
Hope his bonus is severely affected this year. He should have at the least thumbed through the report. Seems like a good assignment for a staff employee.
Another typical example of how good things turn out bad when left in the hands of bureaucrats! (I was going to say incompetent bureaucrats but I try to avoid redundancy whenever possible.)
Again, another excuse for wasting tax payer money. If you had a study saying your yards were in danger I would have read that immediately and made arrangements especially with new equipment.
That the flooding of yards never before flooded occurred, and was predicted in what was probably interpretted as a CYA report and thus not high priority on the reading list is…
That the flooding occurred after storm surges were predicted to engulf the yards…high responsibilty to those officers who should have kept up with the forecasts.
That the event had no precedent—no excuse.
But then, Dad and Mom bought a house and raised family 5 miles inland from the surf on the south shore of Long Island. It happened to be about a mile and a half inside the mandatory evacuation line for Sandy.
Salt-water flooding kills soil and plants so quickly that lawns look like the Altamont in June.
Our home made it…survived.
Should the damage be attributed to…?
These these are paid a lot of money. Part of their responsibility is to think about “what if” type scenarios. Prior to the hurricane I heard plenty of predictions of 13 foot surges and such. I live in Metro North territory and they moved their equipment to higher ground. My local DPW moved their trucks to higher ground (the DPW garage flooded with 5 feet of water) So how come no one over in NJT land didn’t THINK - from the top guy down.
Michael and Jeffry: I wonder what made you so negative. Someone not give you a cushy job when you wanted it? Every time you malign government employees, I’m a bit insulted. Perhaps, just perhaps, there are those of us who devoted our careers to doing the peoples’ business and did a excellent job. Just perhaps.
Some of these storms are once in a hundred year storms. It is not easy to move rail yards. Many of these areas were at one time out in the country with no property around them developed. Now many have much developments around them. As we have built up cities and built buildings cement roads that the rain has to run of it has change the flood plain areas greatly.
His answer to a simple question:
----- When asked what NJ Transit would do in the future, Weinstein offered no solution. “We don’t have those [contingency plans] now and we need to develop them,” he told the Transportation Committee. ----- shows he should be immediatelty removed form his job without a bonus payment. The man apparently learned NOTHING!
Weinstein didn’t read the report and didn’t move the equipment even to err on the side of caution. HE SHOULD BE FIRED!
People who take responsibiity keep their jobs, people who take the blame lose their jobs. First rule of being a bureaucrat.
People who take responsibiity keep their jobs, people who take the blame lose their jobs. First rule of being a bureaucrat.
People who take responsibiity keep their jobs, people who take the blame lose their jobs. First rule of being a bureaucrat.
Jeffery, just because someone works for the govt doesn’t automatically make them an idiot or socialist. Case in point, both Metro-North and the Long Island RR consulted with weather experts prior to Sandy and moved equipment to higher ground, with the result that both suffered no major rolling stock damage.
Jeffery: Please see the January 2013 about the Auto Train. Enuf said.
These difficulties were reported internally as early as 2009, prompting the First Environment Review. However things that could have been done were not. CSA and others mitigated risk by removing equipment from low lying areas, why NJ Transit did not remains a researchable question. I know that I reported the MP’s between Matawan-Aberdeen Station and South Amboy Station in 2010.
I wondered how the troll was going to blame an operation he doesn’t like without admiting to the reality he doesn’t believe…