TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER : EDITORIAL : SAFETY: Commuters Beware

[David P. Dillard]

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TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER :
EDITORIAL :
SAFETY:
Commuters Beware



Commuters Beware
Editorial
Published: November 29, 2009
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/opinion/30mon2.html>



The train wreck last summer that killed nine commuters and injured 80 in
the nations capital laid bare a deadly paradox: the safety failures at the
heart of the collision occurred on a subway track devoid of the strong
federal crashworthiness standards in place on Amtraks immediately adjacent
railroad line. Regional systems of light-rail and subways are not subject
to the federal governments more stringent safety requirements.

The Obama administration wisely wants to end this disjunction by proposing
that Congress extend federal standards to subway and light-rail lines now
haphazardly regulated in more than two dozen city and regional systems.
The safety rules and monitoring are shockingly toothless in too many
jurisdictions, with the systems averaging less than one overworked safety
worker.

The Washington accident happened on the second-busiest subway line in the
nation. It is theoretically monitored by a tri-state committee that was
found, however, to have no regulatory authority or enforcement workers.



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