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Metro-North likely to miss deadline for positive train control
Metro-North likely to miss deadline for positive train control
Matt Coyne, mcoyne@lohud.com Published 6:00 a.m. ET Dec. 14, 2017 | Updated 12:01 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2017
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After being given nearly a decade to implement lifesaving technology, Metro-North is going to have to scramble to meet federal deadlines for positive train control.
Despite more than a billion dollars in loans and grants handed out since the system was first mandated in 2008, and a three-year extension in 2015, Metro-North and some of the country's other largest railroads are lagging as the Dec. 31, 2018, deadline looms.
A Journal News/lohud analysis of the reports that railroads are required to submit to the Federal Railroad Administration highlighting positive train control work shows that if current progress holds, the region's three commuter railroads — Metro-North, NJ Transit and the Long Island Rail Road — won't meet the deadline.
Additionally, it appears two of the next three busiest railroads, Metra in Chicago and Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, are behind, too. ... Only the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), in the Philadelphia area, has been activating the system.
Matt Coyne, mcoyne@lohud.com Published 6:00 a.m. ET Dec. 14, 2017 | Updated 12:01 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2017
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After being given nearly a decade to implement lifesaving technology, Metro-North is going to have to scramble to meet federal deadlines for positive train control.
Despite more than a billion dollars in loans and grants handed out since the system was first mandated in 2008, and a three-year extension in 2015, Metro-North and some of the country's other largest railroads are lagging as the Dec. 31, 2018, deadline looms.
A Journal News/lohud analysis of the reports that railroads are required to submit to the Federal Railroad Administration highlighting positive train control work shows that if current progress holds, the region's three commuter railroads — Metro-North, NJ Transit and the Long Island Rail Road — won't meet the deadline.
Additionally, it appears two of the next three busiest railroads, Metra in Chicago and Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, are behind, too. ... Only the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), in the Philadelphia area, has been activating the system.
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