{"id":11558,"date":"2023-10-03T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/?p=11558"},"modified":"2023-10-03T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:13:53","slug":"hazardous-materials-and-rural-freight-corridors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/hazardous-materials-and-rural-freight-corridors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazardous Materials and Rural Freight Corridors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The movement of hazardous goods on rail and highways multiplies the potential consequences of any crash. Critical rail and highway corridors transect rural areas and crashes can result in impacts to low income or minority communities, natural resources, and the many smaller towns.\u00a0Additionally in rural areas, emergency resources are less likely to be available, or available rapidly.\u00a0The concerns presented here reflect the assumptions and concerns that support MAFC\u2019s current research in an \u201call hazards\u201d approach to understanding threats and resiliency on our major freight corridors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wyso.org\/environment\/2023-10-02\/potential-for-hazmat-transport-accidents-higher-in-low-income-areas-in-midwest\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.wyso.org\/environment\/2023-10-02\/potential-for-hazmat-transport-accidents-higher-in-low-income-areas-in-midwest<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1232\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F80238D4-6476-4BE3-B2FB-C39D22EA8E47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F80238D4-6476-4BE3-B2FB-C39D22EA8E47.png 1232w, https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F80238D4-6476-4BE3-B2FB-C39D22EA8E47-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F80238D4-6476-4BE3-B2FB-C39D22EA8E47-768x416.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1232px) 100vw, 1232px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movement of hazardous goods on rail and highways multiplies the potential consequences of any crash. Critical rail and highway corridors transect rural areas and crashes can result in impacts to low income or minority communities, natural resources, and the many smaller towns.\u00a0Additionally in rural areas, emergency resources are less likely to be available, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-notes","category-rail","category-regional-freight-plan","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}