August 7, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Editorial in the Albany Times Union, August 7, 2015) ALBANY, N.Y. — Congress should stop the freight rail industry from evading the Positive Train Control deadline and other safety requirements. The profitable railroads don’t need more time to find more...
August 4, 2015 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Santa Clarita Valley Signal, August 3, 2015) VALENCIA, Calif. — Metrolink’s “smart collision avoidance system,” aimed at preventing collisions like the 2008 head-on in Chatsworth that killed 25 people, is now a “go” across the commuter rail service’s entire...
August 3, 2015 | Amtrak, Headlines, Technology
(Source: FirstLook.org, July 24, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite the renewed pressure for Amtrak and other companies to meet the deadline for installation of Positive Train Control, Congress appears poised to provide a three-year delay as the rail industry has...
July 31, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: www.nj.com, July 30, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to delay a year-end deadline for railroads to install automatic speed control equipment that would have averted a fatal Amtrak crash several months ago. The Senate passed $350...
July 29, 2015 | Headlines, Legislation, Technology
(Source: Associated Press, July 28, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate is moving toward the likely passage this week of a sweeping, six-year transportation bill, but the House is putting off consideration of the measure until this fall. Full story: Elkhart...
July 29, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Hearst Newspapers, July 28, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Language buried in a massive Senate transportation funding bill would extend the deadline for railroad implementation of a crucial safety mechanism from the end of 2015 to the end of 2018. Full story:...
July 28, 2015 | Headlines, Technology
(Source: Los Angeles Daily News column by Adam Schiff, July 27, 2015) LOS ANGELES — We are now at the point where all train systems should have implemented PTC, or at the very least, begun the process. And to their credit, some have. More distressing still, even as...
July 24, 2015 | Headlines, NTSB, Technology
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, July 23, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of its ongoing investigation of the derailment of a crude oil unit train in Casselton, North Dakota, today the National Transportation Safety Board produced a Train...
July 24, 2015 | Amtrak, Headlines, Technology
(Source: New York Times, July 23, 2015) WASHINGTON — Two months after the high-speed derailment of an Amtrak train killed eight people and injured hundreds more in Philadelphia, a Senate transportation bill headed for debate this week calls for a three-year delay of...
July 10, 2015 | Amtrak, Headlines, Technology
(Source: Associated Press, July 10, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A transportation bill introduced by a Senate committee chairman eliminate any hard deadline for railroads to start using long-sought technology that automatically stops trains to prevent crashes, safety...
