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PTC-preventable was Re: Report: Rockefeller was asleep at the throttle |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Wed Dec 4 01:21:36 2013, in response to Re: Report: Rockefeller was asleep at the throttle, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Dec 3 08:36:10 2013. While Rockefeller was at the controls, the ultimate fault for this accident lies clearly in the hands of MN. The fact of the matter is that humans mess up. Everyone who drives a car regularly has zoned out and lost a sense of where they were or where they were going, or how fast, etc. For trains, the system shouldn't allow humans messing up to cause a wreck. This was an entirely PTC-preventable accident. Given that MN could have installed PTC 13-14 years ago along with Amtrak, this is simply negligence on MN's part. PTC is a simple and obvious safety enhancement. There are a number of commuter lines that haven't installed PTC and should have. MN just got unlucky. The fact of the matter is that an accident like this was bound to happen eventually without PTC. It's sad that they didn't implement PTC when it was proven to work by Amtrak, and then again dragged their feet on the 2008 mandate for a whole 5 years, and as a result, 4 people are dead, and others are injured/traumatized, not to mention the mess of shutting the line down for several days for passenger and freight and the cleanup cost. The management of MN has blood on their hands, and they should pay for it. Rockefeller was unfortunately just the unlucky guy who zoned out at the wrong place and the wrong time. |
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