(Source: Politico, October 18, 2015)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last spring’s deaths of eight passengers in an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia called attention to a glaring hole in the nation’s rail safety network: railroads’ failure to install an advanced anti-collision technology that Congress had mandated in 2008. But five months later, lawmakers are preparing to give railroads years past this December’s deadline to put the systems in place — heeding the railroads’ warnings that they would otherwise have to impose a nationwide freeze on rail traffic that could wreck the economy and threaten national security.
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