(Source: Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — NTSB Chairman Christopher A. Hart called for railways to install inward-facing cameras in locomotives to help in crash investigations, but Dennis Pierce, the national president of the union representing locomotive engineers, said such cameras would infringe on workers’ privacy while doing nothing to prevent accidents.
“Cameras don’t slow or stop trains,” he said. “Positive train control does.”
Pierce also called for Amtrak to beef up staffing to ensure each locomotive has two crew members.
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