” ...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.
It sounds almost like an ADVISORY system if there is training involved. Actual PTC means the train simply won’t go over the programmed speed limit, or in some cases simply won’t go at all, unless the train knows through the PTC system that it is okay to proceed or go that fast.
No okay to proceed, the train refuses, no matter what the engineer tries to do.