They’ll say it’s because Republicans oppose infrastructure.
It’s been well known that the major railroads, who often also operate commuter transit railroads under contract, stipulated a 3-year roll out period for PTC and a bill was passed in Congress by voice vote (and signed by Big Ears, FWIW) to authorize this time extension.
I’m a software contractor on a PTC project for a major railroad right now, and even the rate at which this is being hastened out is incurring a lot of teething pains for the system. Thousands of miles of railroad track and hundreds of locomotives have to be equipped with radio service. It has to work seamlessly as locomotives pass from tracks owned by one railroad to another. This is more like putting men on the moon than it is like building another Hoover Dam.
When the system is working right, yes most accidents of the kind that just happened in Hoboken will be headed off. The locomotives will STOP when signals say that they have to stop, no matter what the engineer tries, or fails, to do.
Yes but Trump wants to rebuild trains and roads with American parts and jobs. Not your father’s republican.
“never let a serious crisis go to waste”... the Dem playbook (Rahm Emanuel)
I believe the PATH service is run by the Port of NY Authority, a bi state agency. What that has to do with the GOP seems at best tangential.