Thursday, May 14, 2015

Antrak derailment is Republican Congress's fault. (Cutting Funding stopped needed upgrades)

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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