They’ll say it’s because Republicans oppose infrastructure.
No human is needed now to drive a train — anywhere in the country. This is all union crap and I will speculate that the driver of this train was drugged out.
The Dead mans switch has been in existence for how many years?
And these trains don’t have one? How Sad. We don’t know yet what caused this. But just to think that there is no protection against an operator having a heart attack near the end of the run.
Also on Metro North near Spuyten Duyvil - same thing with at least one fatality. My daughter took a different train the night before but had considered that one; that is why I remember it.
Trump is right once again! Our infrastructure is third world. Also I still would not be surprised that we find out that it was terrorist sabotage - time will tell - unless the media suppresses the truth as they did in the Pulse nightclub motive.
The broke taxpayers obviously did not pay enough/s
This is video of a civil alert yesterday from a WKTV Channel 2 Utica, NY.
They later posted on their twitter feed to ignore the alert.
Just seeing news—accident or terrorism?
I was on the last train out of Hoboken for NY before the crash. I almost didn’t get on because it was so crowded, almost waited for the next train.
But I got on and missed the crash. Missed being in the terminal when the train crashed.
I built locomotives in the 1980s.
They all had a dead man switch.
And it was old technology then...
How does a train “roar off the tracks”? Sounds like ignorant writer.
What happen to the engineer? The said the found him slumped over, did the train not brake at all? Was he Dead because of the accident or before the accident? Are the engineers by themselves? Not wanting to think it was more than an accident but it does make one think about terrorism? No attempt to stop? had he had a heart attach or a stroke and died before the accident?
Again was it Terrorism?
The train DID have “positive” train control: a highly paid union engineer sitting behind the controls. Sad that the technology was not present to protect the riders from the engineer. Tragic even. But it was an accident sans-technology that did not need to happen.
A perusal of PATH’s budget might prove interesting. How much was spent on out-of-state trips? How much spent on art and on renovations of offices? What budget choices did the governing body make that did not prioritize PTC?
Simple question. Was the engineer of that train impaired, suicidal or overcome by people who had bad intentions? When will these key questions be addressed? That locomotive was under the control of a person.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam which is a religion of peace.
The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the derailment was caused by the train’s engineer becoming distracted by other radio transmissions and losing situational awareness.
When you run off the Dagny Taggerts...
Saudi driver ?
” ...not equipped with the positive train control technology that could have prevented it from roaring off the rails. What’s more, not a single New Jersey Transit employee has been trained how to use the PTC technology, “
Why bother training employees on technology they don’t have or use? I’d say they were being thrifty by not wasting taxpayers money on unnecessary training.
what is “positive train technology”?
Is that, like, BRAKES?