(Source: Editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 2017)
PHILADELPHIA — It’s time to put the derailment of Amtrak Train 188 to rest, to take the lessons learned from the tragedy and use them to prevent more harm. Those wanting to point the finger of guilt at the locomotive engineer should widen their field of vision. His moments of distraction were made worse by Congress, which kept extending the deadline for the nation’s railroads to install a braking system that could have compensated for the error. The Positive Train Control system automatically slows trains when they reach dangerous speeds.
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