http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/amtrak-infrastructure-congress-maddow_n_7280214.html?ir=Politics&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013
Rachel Maddow went on a righteous rant about the state of the
country's infrastructure on her show Wednesday, assailing government
officials for failing to implement technology that could have prevented the derailment of Amtrak 188.
"We
are a great nation that has allowed the world-class national
infrastructure, that our grandparents built and our parents handed down
to us, to erode and suffer and starve to the point that it is decrepit
and deadly," Maddow said on her show. "And this is a failure of
governance. This is on Congress' head."
The MSNBC host argued that the Amtrak crash outside of Philadelphia, which happened when the train hit a sharp turn at more than 100 miles per hour and derailed,
would not have happened had a positive train control system been in
place. Positive train control systems monitor trains and their movement
to improve safety: They also enforce speed limits, to ensure trains are
not too close together or on a collision course and to protect work
crews.
"There's no mystery about this disaster in Philadelphia and
what cost all of those lives in all of those places -- and there will
be no mystery when it happens again," Maddow said.
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