A people-powered campaign to electrify America's railroads, run trains on green energy, open corridors to a clean energy future, protect community & create jobs
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What's behind the “managed decline” of U.S. freight rail transport? Check out “Our Way or the Highway” to find out!
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Our friends at @publicrailnow have created an easy way for you to anonymously voice your opposition to the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern rail mega-merger!
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Without a doubt, railroad jobs have gotten worse, that is if you still have your job.
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The quality of their service, meanwhile, has only deteriorated. They are, however, making record profits.
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Captive to the interests of aggressive “activist” investors intent on extracting ever-more profit through stock buybacks and price-gouging, today’s Class I railroads have failed to meaningfully grow their volumes over the past two decades. The quality of their service, meanwhile,
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The past several years have seen a level of greed, abuse, and dysfunction on the part of America’s largest railroad corporations that has many comparing them to the infamous Robber Barons of the late nineteenth century.
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NEW in depth interview w/Illegally-fired Surface Transportation Board member and former Chair Robert Primus! We are honored and proud to bring you this insightful and revealing discussion. Listen today and share broadly.
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Reconnect America Ep. 5, "Profitability at Any Cost: The Price We Paid to Rescue U.S. Railroads” explores how deregulation reshaped the U.S rail system to keep it in private hands, fueling globalization and leaving smaller shippers and communities behind.
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Railroad deregulation was supposed to preserve reliable and competitive freight service for businesses and communities. But a poorly constructed regulatory mandate has allowed that promise to be broken. Here's how shippers are trying to fix that:
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Our conversation with Emily Regis explores the power imbalance faced by businesses that depend on railroads to move their freight, the difficulty of getting help from regulators, and the dangers of further consolidation.
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Our brand new fourth episode walks you through the wild consequences, for better and for worse, of the peculiar U.S. insistence on private ownership of the critical national infrastructure called railroads.
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1. @openmarkets just filed an amicus brief in Trump v. Slaughter on whether the President has constitutional power to remove executive and administrative heads at will. We argue emphatically no.
Thank you to @jamietryhard for serving as our counsel of record!
Leaked email and White House coercion dominate Senate confirmation hearing. open.substack.com/pub/soluti…
URGENT: Contact Senate Commerce Committee Members BEFORE this Thursday 11/06. DEMAND: NO CONFIRMATIONS & NO STB PROCEEDINGS until STB independent adjudicatory power is restored with reseating of Robert Primus. Don't let UP bribe their way to merger w/NS. solutionaryrail.substack.com…
Leaked email from STB Chair makes it clear that now is the time to strengthen and defend the independence of the Surface Transportation Board and refuse Trump Admin meddling. 1st step: Reinstate Robert Primus who was illegally removed. Take action today.
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Trucks inflict 8x greater costs on the public than rail. Freight transportation policy must prioritize a modeshift from truck to rail.
Listen to founder and CEO of Hum Industrial Technology Byron Porter at: solutionaryrail.org/podcasti…
A broken rate review process reinforces Class I railroads’ monopoly power over shippers. This hinders reindustrialization, forces freight onto trucks, and raises costs for consumers and the public.
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Merging won’t make railroads competitive with trucking. Wall Street’s railroads have prioritized profit over growth for decades. The UP-NS deal only perpetuates that model.
Listen to founder and CEO of Hum Industrial Technology Byron Porter at: solutionaryrail.org/podcasti…