[Newsbot]

Title: Oil train 'blast zone' mapped throughout North America
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2014-08-20 08:37:51
Canadian

[martin14]

What a perfect tool for terrorists.

Thanks, tree huggers.

[DanSC]

It's a map of major rail lines. Good research, everyone.

[bootlegga]

martin14 martin14:

What a perfect tool for terrorists.

Thanks, tree huggers.

While I agree that we shouldn't make it easy for nutjobs, any terrorist could fire up Google Maps (upon which this is based) and figure it out just as easily as using this thing.

Edit: Having scanned this, it isn't very accurate.

I checked out Edmonton and according to this tool, oil trains apparently still travel downtown (and across the High Level Bridge).

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Oil Train map - Edmonton.jpg [ 183.15 KiB | Viewed 226 times ]

Anyone who lives here knows that those lines were decommissioned a couple decades ago. Macewan University now sits on part of the line that supposedly runs through Edmonton's downtown and the line that runs across the High Level ends at 100 Avenue and only carries the High Level Streetcar.

http://www.edmonton-radial-railway.ab.c ... velbridge/

[saturn_656]

Hey, pipelines are evil. So this is what we're stuck with.

Learn to cope.

[Freakinoldguy]

Good thing we don't have any of those big city problems on the Island. All we have to worry about is the debris washing up on our pristine shores from all the explosions in the Lower Mainland.

We transport all our fuel by barge and truck which as any sane person knows are the safest methods because we've never had an oil spill, oil fire, or oil anything on the Island............., oh wait.

[Jabberwalker]

"All we have to worry about is the debris washing up on our pristine shores from all the explosions in the Lower Mainland." he said as the one hundred foot high tsunami bore down on him from behind.