Posted on 05/20/2015 12:04:27 PM PDT by 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.''
(Excerpt) Read more at ctpost.com ...
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.
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.
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