(Source: Progressive Railroading, February 14, 2012)
U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) recently sent a letter to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) expressing concerns about the current pace of positive train control (PTC) implementation. The pace of progress and investments by railroads is “insufficient to meet the statutory deadline” of Dec. 31, 2015, they wrote in the letter to Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph Szabo dated Jan. 25.
Feinstein and Boxer requested that the FRA’s fiscal-year 2013 budget request to Congress include a description of how the funding requested for PTC oversight and rail safety technology will be sufficient to ensure that railroads meet the deadline. They also asked the FRA to provide Congress a status report on PTC implementation by late March.
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