US, Canada Issue Rail Safety Recommendations

摘要

US and Canadian regulators released simultaneous reports on Thursday recommending ways to improve the safety of crude-by-rail transportation--a topic that has grabbed public attention in both countries after a series of derailments and fires. Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has been looking into the issue since last July, when 47 people lost their lives in the worst of the incidents--a crude-by-rail inferno in Quebec. In the US, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has been investigating a series of similar but non-fatal incidents.