They do this shit at least 3 times a week here in south Mississippi, and its a fucking freight train with over a hundred train cars usually.

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    Trains don’t park on open lines? Excuse me, that’s exactly what I’m posting, they most certainly do, multiple times a week here!

    This time they blocked both intersections in our area, blocking even the typical detour people are accustomed to using when this shit happens.

    And it’s also a shared rail, shared between long freightlines and also much shorter Amtrak passenger lines. At least Amtrak doesn’t park and block a hundred vehicles across multiple intersections…

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      You call this parking. It’s a bottleneck. There are solutions. Underpasses. Overpasses. Better rail infrastructure. Unfortunately, higher taxes.

      Write up your frustration and take it to your local, state, and federal politicians.

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        How do you even do that? Like literally write to politicians?

        I’m literally signed up for Ezell’s Edge, but it’s just an automated publication, they don’t read a fucking thing.

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          The easy way would be to find your local, state, and federal politicians and post on whatever social media they’re on. That’s a couple of old school Google searches away.

          Local governments has meetings, some of which will allow petitioning for action. I think the rules will differ there by region, as they do for state level, would be my guess. Maybe somebody else could point you at the right place. Your reps in DC tend to have phone lines to voice your opinion. All of them receive mail by USPS. Chuck all your f-bombs at me before you write them;) you want to sound reasonably frustrated to them.