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bridges. we have four bridges, two commercial. we have 26,000 daily noncommercial vehicles. we have of two railroads here and we have 1,200 daily rail crossings. it s a prosperous vibrant city. our unemployment rate hovers between 4.4% to 5% depending on the season. so we re active laredo is growing, and we re planning for future growth. mexico is very much part of our economy here. just laredo alone, just our bridges alone, and we do about 40% of all the mexican trade, and in our district the laredo district from brownsville to del rio, we do over 50% of the trade with mexico and that s $280 billion worth over a quarter trillion dollars of value in
makeup for lost time. again, this was a human factor that could have been overcome by a technological warning system. you talk about the warning signals, right, you said in the old days you had men out there who had eyes on the trains. listen here s another instance trucks get into accidents about 10 time as week at rail crossings. there was a collision on sunday in louisiana that killed a driver and people on the train. i know you don t believe these warning systems are good enough. so what is the improvement here? we should put cameras in the compartment where the engineer is and there s been discussion and that could be comparative to this airplane crash, we have a second engineer inside with the first one and that could prevent cell phone distractions or
months. two weeks ago the engnearineer of a commuter train was killed when it collided with a truck on the tracks incal california. and last month section people were killed when an suv was struck by a commuter train in knock. amtrak said in a statement it was monitoring the situation and an investigation was ongoing. the overwhelming number of fatalities happen at these rail crossings. recent isly the department of transportation launched a campaign to ramp up safety at these crossings. part calls for law enforcement to issue citations. when you see that happening, like what we saw yesterday, is that enough? michaela? a very good point. we appreciate that. let s discuss it more with mary schiavo schiavo, an attorney who represents the victims and
this. there are thousands of accidents a year and hundreds of deaths and, carol, overwhelmingly the number of fatalities they are happening at these rail crossings. so what are officials doing to ensure the rails are safe? reporter: there is technology out there. there is technology for example, that prevents the cars from crumpling. we found that at play in the california incident. that s been known to save lives. there s also technology called positive train control. that would not have helped in this situation we saw yesterday, but it would help in a situation where maybe a train is going too fast or the conductor isn t paying attention, maybe the conductor fell asleep or is texting. we ve seen situations like that in the past so positive train control has the ability to automatically stop the train, but oftentimes what gets in the way of widespread implementation and it happening very quickly is money. you hear a lot of these
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