Cuomo: $1 billion to be devoted to commuter rail safety
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the nation’s largest commuter rail network, is on track to receive a $1 billion federal loan for safety improvements meant to avoid a repeat of a 2013 derailment that killed four people, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday.
The funding will be used to complete the installation of Positive-Train Control systems, which automatically slow the train if the train operator — or some other malfunction — places it in jeopardy. The National Transportation Safety board has concluded the devices would have prevented the December 2013 crash that killed four people when a Metro-North train was going 85 mph on a dangerous curve as it approached the Spuyten-Duvil station in the Bronx.
“It is the state-of-the-art safety design for the system and it is something that is very important,” Cuomo, a Democrat, said during a speech in Manhattan to the Association for Better New York business group.
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