“It is time to put an end to the profiteering, recklessness and irresponsibility of the Class One Carriers. Let railroad workers take the lead- a fresh beginning for a vibrant, expanding and innovative national rail industry to properly handle the nation’s freight and passengers in the 21st century.”
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Public Rail Now (PRN) is dedicated to advancing public rail ownership, worker solidarity, and a democratic, equitable transportation system that serves the public good.
We advocate for policies that prioritize workers, passengers, and communities over private profit, ensuring that rail transportation serves the public good. PRN seeks to educate the public, mobilize support, and drive systemic change in the rail industry.
We envision a rail system that is publicly owned, efficiently managed, and accountable to the people. A system that:
- Prioritizes safety, reliability, and accessibility for both freight and passenger rail.
- Strengthens organized labor and empowers railroad workers.
- Reduces environmental harm by shifting freight and passengers from roads to rail.
- Reinforces local economies by ensuring fair rates and service standards.
In These Times – Corporate greed [is] turning railroads into banks to extract billions and billions of dollars from what should be critical infrastructure.
Sierra Club Illinois Chapter – Perhaps even more distressing, shipments of hazardous and security-sensitive cargo—military bombs, rockets, warheads, torpedoes, mines, grenades, ammunition, projectiles, and even fireworks used as distress signals—can be embargoed and held by private railroad companies on privately owned…
Jacobin – You cannot run trains competitively. Railways — like agriculture or the mail — are at one and the same time an economic activity and an essential public good.
Governing – “Since the North American private rail industry has shown itself incapable of doing the job, it is time for this invaluable transportation infrastructure — like the other transport modes — to be brought under public ownership,”
Freightwaves – We believe that the rail industry should be growing for the future prosperity of our nation and for the future sustainability of transportation. Traffic volumes should be going up to take a lot of this [truck] traffic that is…