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How Congress Caused the Amtrak Crash
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How Congress Caused the Amtrak Crash
The tragedy of Tuesdays Amtrak derailment could have been prevented if
Congress had the foresight to invest in Americas infrastructure.
Breakdown
05.15.155:05 PM ET
Irwin Redleder
Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/15/
how-congress-caused-the-amtrak-crash.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/kn4ebdp
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Tuesday evenings derailment of Amtrak 188 in Philadelphia underscores the
real consequences of neglecting Americas fragile infrastructure. According
to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) spokesperson, the stretch
of rail track where the crash took place wasnt equipped with an automated
speed control (aka positive train control or PTC) system. The NTSB
official added that based on what we know right now, we feel that had such
a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not
have occurred.
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Clearly, the investigation into the causes of this horror story is
ongoing, but the point is that if available technological safeguards were
in place, even a reckless decision to drive at twice the recommended speed
limit around that curve could well have been overridden.
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Indeed, the absence of PTC and other accident prevention strategies
everywhere throughout the U.S. rail system is inexcusable. The absence
also reflects a much larger problem: an irresponsible lack of commitment
by the federal government to our national rail system and the rest of the
nations crumbling infrastructure.
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Americans seem to have an inordinately high tolerance for preventable
risk. Or maybe its better described as a politically pathological aversion
to making long-term investments in our future resiliency. How else can one
explain the failure to repair and upgrade the infrastructure we depend on
to commute, transport goods and services to market, and travel?
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Our breath-taking scope of inattention encompasses not just the rail
system but all of our transportation systems from highways and bridges to
tunnels and levees, shipping channels, waste facilities, and an antiquated
electrical grid that remains highly vulnerable to all manner of
cyberthreats, natural and otherwise.
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We once had an infrastructure envied around the globe, initiated by
visionaries like Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower and built by the
best engineers and workers on earth. Now all of that has fallen victim to
political paralysis, a failure to understand priorities and dangerous
shortsightedness.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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