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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Sat Dec 7, 2013, 12:58 PM Dec 2013

Governor calls on MTA to implement new safety precautions ASAP

ALBANY – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wrote to MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast on Friday telling him that the MTA “should expedite automated speed control for vulnerable track locations” on the Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road systems, including those where there is a significant speed change.

Cuomo said positive train control “offers the most comprehensive systemic solution to prevent railroad collisions and speed conditions that can lead to derailments.”

http://www.empirestatenews.net/News2013/20131207-2.htm

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