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Re: SEPTA to spend $100 million on PTC (unfunded federal mandate); other projects take hit |
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Posted by WillD on Wed Feb 29 03:17:47 2012, in response to Re: SEPTA to spend $100 million on PTC (unfunded federal mandate); other projects take hit, posted by Jersey Mike on Wed Feb 29 02:46:58 2012. How many people were killed in that event?"Come back when it's a catastrophe", eh? So now we need some bloody bodies before we can justify safety improvements which SEPTA admits they're negligent for not making? SEPTA got lucky that the one engineer held her position rather than proceed. You'd have gotten your bodies if she'd not stopped her train. Does it justify spending 100 million to prevent? Yes! Easily! They'll be paying *at least* 10 million dollars to each of the estates of 10 people killed in a crash. Again, they got lucky at Roslyn, but you very easily could have had ten people killed and hundreds of millions of dollars blown on settling or paying out the resultant lawsuits. Why do you insist gambling on a game which is rigged against SEPTA and every other transit system? Could it have been prevented using the cab signaling that has now been installed on that line? No, it would not. If the train operator is bent on continuing his route he can ignore the cab signal indication, accidentally or not, and proceed through the stop signal. If this E/R passed the signal at danger then what makes you think he'd have paid any heed to the cab signal indication? |
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