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| Re: SEPTA to spend $100 million on PTC (unfunded federal mandate); other projects take hit (1143472) | |||
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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 Mar 7 03:10:55 2012, in response to Re: SEPTA to spend $100 million on PTC (unfunded federal mandate); other projects take hit, posted by The Flxible Neofan on Fri Mar 2 13:05:55 2012. Knee jerk reaction? Legislation crafted in response to three major accidents and a half dozen smaller accidents over the course of a decade is hardly a knee jerk reaction. If anything the fact that they didn't take steps to curtail signals being passed after the Secaucus wreck is downright irresponsible in the first place.What the FRA did do in response to the Secaucus crash was exactly what Jersey Mike advocates. They beefed up crashworthiness requirements (itself an unfunded mandate draining scarce operational dollars alongside its capital expenditure) rather than attempting to avoid accidents in the first place. Except that a focus on crash survival rather than crash avoidance has done NOTHING to make rail travel any safer than it was before the Secaucus wreck. Jersey Mike's rhetoric was put into place and it failed miserably, and THAT is why we have the PTC mandate, a decade in the making and seven years in implementation. |
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