(Source: CBC News, October 16, 2017)
MONTREAL — The former Montreal Maine and Atlantic (MMA) employee in charge of training and safety said in the months before the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train disaster, MMA nearly doubled the number of convoys carrying crude oil through the community each week. It also increased the weight of those trains without putting in place any extra security measures, Michael Horan testified, although he said it did impose lower speed limits in some places as a way to compensate for damaged train tracks.
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