Obama official once said train-safety cost outweighed benefit

The Connectictu Post ^ | 5/18/15 | Dan Freedman

[JRios1968]

When a Republican lawmaker in 2011 asked an Obama administration Office of Management and Budget official to name regulations where costs were not justified by benefits, the official had a ready answer.

"There is only one big one that comes to mind," said Cass Sunstein, then administrator of the White House OMB's Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs. "It is called Positive Train Control.''

[JRios1968]

The train hadn't stopped rolling by the time the RATS and their willing accomplices in the Lamestream Media had blamed the Republicans.

[Army Air Corps]

"There is only one big one that comes to mind," said Cass Sunstein, then administrator of the White House OMB's Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs.

Ah, one of Obummer's "Czars".

[thackney]

Essentially all safety concerns have a limit where the cost in either money, time or utility is deemed to outweigh the benefit.

The argument isn’t that the line exist, it is where to draw the line.

[Rodamala]

PTC is frankly the biggest boondoggle going... but Class 1 RRs are all for it because they can petition the government mandators to help cover their costs to eliminate the last remaining block to crewless trains.