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According to reports I've seen ... the blood taken from the Engineer indicates there was no trace of drugs or alcohol in his system. It appears AMTRAK is looking for mechanical problems beyond the Engineer's control.
Having experienced train service (both regular and high speed) in European and Asian countries I can say that Amtrak, and American mass transit in general, is positively third world by comparison.
It's difficult, takes sustained effort and is not very profitable. America hasn't exactly excelled in that category since what, the Moon landings?
wuti? rail embedded sensors along the rail bed would have slowed that train down but God forbid we have tech like the Japanese in the US!
As for the Engineer? as I have said in other threads he may have dozed off at the wheel.
wuti? rail embedded sensors along the rail bed would have slowed that train down but God forbid we have tech like the Japanese in the US!
As for the Engineer? as I have said in other threads he may have dozed off at the wheel.
Probably some Japanese blamed a lack of funding for this too. If only we had a corporate income tax rate as high as the Americans...
Amtrak has gotten something like $45 billion in tax funding since inception. For the 3rd time, it was sold as something that would be self-supporting within a short time when created over 40 years ago. For all those billions, they gave us a system where one guy dozing off results in 8 deaths?
You are making this too complicated....He was probably distracted...(texting on his cell phone or making out with his assistant)
It's happened before.... A B.C. Supreme Court judge blamed a tangled, steamy relationship between two crew members for the Queen of the North’s deadly collision with a remote, rocky island, as she sentenced navigator Karl Lilgert to four years for his role in the ship’s sinking. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle12773903/
There has always been surplus. The outlays of the Highway Trust Fund have steadily matched the receipts for decades even with the money being shifted to the mass transit fund. It's only recently they have had to inject general funds into it.
I don't know what the total is given to mass transit over the years but it has be in the 100 billion range which could meet their budget for two plus years. There is only two possibilities of what would of happened with that money if it were not spent on mass transit, we'd have a huge surplus or better roads.
•106 mph crash in a 50 mph zone...Amtrak must be underfunded!
Aren't they supposed to have automatic brakes?
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