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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 The Flxible Neofan on Wed Feb 29 12:35:39 2012, in response to Re: SEPTA to spend $100 million on PTC (unfunded federal mandate); other projects take hit, posted by WillD on Wed Feb 29 03:17:47 2012. Regardless, the issue isn't simply whether they should ever install PTC or not. The issue is that this unfunded mandate is taking well needed dollars away from projects to bring the system to a state of good repair, such as renovating old bridges, upgrading ancient substations, and more. The very aggressive timeline to implement this system is hurting the budget of a variety of commuter rail systems out there.Plus this PTC system (which may or may not prevent accidents on SEPTA) automatically drastically increases the costs of any future Regional Rail extension. |
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