East Palestine Crash Prompted Rail Safety Bill. Why It Stalled.
Among the provisions that Republicans and rail interests have taken issue with is one that mandates a two-person crew for “high-hazard” trains. Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation think tank in Washington, says the railroads see that as “a gratuitous giveaway to the unions who have been advocating the two-person rule since long before East Palestine, and which the railroads say would never pass objective cost-benefit analysis.”