Metrolink says engineers tampering with cameras

AP via SFGate ^ | 5/24/10

[SmithL]

Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- An engineer has been barred from operating Metrolink trains and another is under investigation for allegedly tampering with new locomotive surveillance cameras designed to improve safety on the commuter line after federal investigators found an engineer's actions contributed to the deadly 2008 Chatsworth crash.

Metrolink officials accused one engineer of making three attempts to block the cameras' view. That engineer, who works for an operating contractor, Connex Railroad LLC, has been barred from running any train on Metrolink-controlled tracks, agency spokeswoman Angela Starr said.

Another engineer allegedly clipped a paper to a visor to block the camera in March. He is still operating Metrolink trains . . .

[Leisler]

Ah, to be driven buy affirmative action, union dolt, nephew of a politician hack.

[T-Bird45]

Related article on the labor unrest for commuter rail in SoCal: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/01/local/la-me-metrolink-tests1-2010apr01

[Buckeye McFrog]

NO.....Union guys screwing with the system? Be still my fluttering heart! /sarc

[Kommodor]

Hmm... You’d think “Tamper with safety camera” = “You’re fired!”

Guess that’s a bit too tough for the MLink folks to figure out, though.

[Mark was here]

I thought Government workers were perfect. If they actually did oil field work, there would never be an accident. Simply because only government workers are the only ones who care about safety.

[Red Badger]

If they actually did oil field work, there would never be an accident.

That's is so true. They would never have drilled in the first place.........EPA regs, OSHA regs, and whatever else regs they could dig up to avoid actually doing a job..........

[rawhide]

Folks is a controversial figure in South Carolina politics. He pleaded guilty to criminal domestic violence in 2005...

This is all I need to know about this piece of scum!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Stories like this from back in Pittsburgh’s Steel heyday are legendary. Union guys had a supreme sense of entitlement. They’d steal whatever they could carry, ignore rules, deliberately sabotage and screw things up, all to show contempt for “The Man” (and to demonstrate that he was powerless to do anything about it)

Of course, all of the laughing came to a screeching halt in an 18-month period around 1980.

[rottndog]

It should be a FELONY for a union turd to tamper with safety surveillance cameras.