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Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun May 17 03:58:51 2015, in response to Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun May 17 03:47:40 2015. For those who don't understand what I mean by all that. PTC and ATC depend on radio transmissions. The frequencies needed to do it were made available YEARS ago.What happened is that as soon as those frequencies that the railroads needed to DO ATC went up for "bid" because that's the way congress did it. The telephone companies outbid Amtrak (which couldn't afford to outbid them for the frequencies needed) and so those frequencies went to the cellular companies instead of the railroads. It was all about the Benjamins and Amtrak didn't have them. :( FCC just granted Amtrak a few spare bits left over to that cause just this past week and the cell companies are already threatening to sue over it. So we have lawgivers who have NO IDEA of what the words, "public interest" means and are siding with the cell carriers INSTEAD of making trains safe. People voted for this to happen! |
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