Transportation

Shipping Problems

“Bomb Trains”

TV Special Reports ‘A Danger on Rails’ - The New York Times A timeline of recent oil train crashes in the US and Canada - AP News A Timeline of Oil Train Derailments In Pictures - Sightline Institute Can You Tell If a ‘Bomb Train’ Is Coming to Your Town? It’s...

Global Shipping Crisis

~ Could a shipping crisis derail post-pandemic economic recovery Inside Story - YouTube ~ Navigating The Global Shipping Crisis - YouTube ~ Global Shipping Crisis Far Worse Than Imagined - New Eastern Outlook~ Global shipping mess, supply chain delays to last...

Shipping Prices Skyrocketing

~ Shipping delays, high prices likely to return this holiday season - YouTube ~ Shipping Rates Rising - YouTube ~ Rising shipping costs to push up price of goods - Dailymotion - VIDEO ~ Rising shipping costs leading to a large increase in prices,...

Shipping Container Shortage

~ Critical shortage of containers sends shipping costs soaring amid COVID-19 - YouTube ~ Global shipping crisis China ramps up container production - YouTube ~ Shipping container prices surge in latest trade dispute - YouTube ~ Shipping container...

Shipping – Container Ships Stuck at Sea

~ Backup On The Bay Long Line Of Cargo Ships Wait To Dock At Port of Oakland - YouTube ~ Container ships anchored and waiting to unload cargo outside of U.S. ports - MSNBC - VIDEO ~ Container ships wait to unload amid backup at the ports - YouTube...

Transportation Problems

Electric Vehicle Battery Fires

Unlike traditional gas powered vehicles, the lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles pose new fire hazards that are incredibly dangerous. Lithium ion batteries are known to spontaneously combust into an explosive fire which is almost impossible to extinguish....

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car? - Documentary

Public Transportation Problems

Parking Meters

In 2008 the City of Chicago signed a 75 year lease with private parking meter companies to extort a lifetime of revenue from drivers. The public has been paying dearly ever since. In a boondoggle of a deal marked by utter corruption, the city undersold the public...

City Vehicle Stickers

Fines = Revenue ~ Chicago Hiked the Cost of Vehicle City Sticker Violations to Boost Revenue. But It’s Driven More Low-Income, Black Motorists into Debt - ProPublica ~ Three City Sticker Tickets On The Same Car In 90 Minutes- - WBEZ Chicago City clerk...

License Plate Stickers

Fines = Revenue ~ Illinois license plate sticker among most expensive in the nation - Illinois Policy ~ Illinois collecting more in license plate fines - Latest News - qconline.com No Reminder Increases Violations and Revenue ~ Tickets for expired plate...

Towing

The Racket ~ Chicago’s Towing And Booting Program Is Broken - WBEZ ~ 'The city stole my car'- Politically connected towing co. auctioning towed cars - Chicago Sun-Times ~ Chicago ‘tow-and-sell’ operation flips 50K cars, buries drivers in debt - Illinois...

Impound

The guys down at the impound lot are sure to take really good care of your vehicle as they jack it up on the forklift with an ever so gentle touch and dump it off somewhere in the seemingly never ending lot of heartbreak and sorrow. VIDEOS ~ The Chicago Auto...

Winter Parking Ban

One of the City of Chicago's favorite scams is the Winter Parking Ban which kicks off every year on December 1st at 3AM. The posted signs are deliberately misleading in order to trap people in this extortion racket that steals thousands of cars every year and puts...

Tickets

Cities across the country are extorting billions of dollars from the hardworking public in the form of onerous ticket enforcement polices that each year drive thousands of people into debt, bankruptcy, and utter financial ruin. Videos ~ Chicago Owes Drivers...

Speed Cameras

In the midst of this ongoing pandemic and government caused economic catastrophe that has forced millions of people to loose their businesses, become unemployed, spiral into debt, bankruptcy, and foreclosure, tragically leading to an unprecedented rise in depression...

Red Light Cameras

Red Light Cameras are a perfect example of the routine scam that corrupt bureaucrats use to fleece the hardworking taxpayers. Not only is there no evidence showing that cameras provide any legitimate safety benefit but countless scientific studies have repeatedly...

Public Transportation Solutions

End Red Light Cameras

Videos - The Red Light Robin Hood ~ Exclusive- Red Light Robin Hood- - YouTube ~ Red Light Robin Hood – CBS2 New York - Video ~ Stephen Ruth Takes Out Traffic Camera (ORIGINAL) - YouTube ~ Disconnecting 19 Red Light Cameras and Turning...