TemplarKormac
Political Atheist
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Right - because opinions don't require facts.
Of course not, if you were you.
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Right - because opinions don't require facts.
I agree with that - it should have begun when the law requiring it was enacted in 2008.Evidently, the FUNDING was obtained less than 1 month before the crash and was described as "a necessary first step..."
Speed control was NOT working at the time of the crash - even if portions of it were installed.
Funding doesn't cover for the malfeasance of the engineer, or the fact that the PTC (installed in both train and track) wasn't on at the time of the accident. Besides, funding had been coming in since 2008, after then President George W. Bush mandated that the PTC be fully operational by this year. Well lookie here, 7 years later and nothing. So, why has it taken this long for merely "portions" of it to be installed? Surely it wasn't for lack of funding?
That "critical first step" should have been taken long before now. That once again tells you the money was there, but the brains behind the outfit were not.
You can get a copy of the DOT congressional report on thomas.gov which shows that congress began shorting Amtrak's budget requests as early as 2010
So, either we have a law which says that our rail service should be safe or we don't. But if we do, and it can't be paid for, whose fault is it really?
TK why do you refuse to acknowledge that conservative fiscal policies as relates to infrastructure spending may have been a factor in this derailment?