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Rail safety official: Maintenance problems plague Northeast Corridor [View all]
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Rail safety official: Maintenance problems plague Northeast Corridor
By Marisa Endicott, Medill News Service | April 8, 2016 at 3:25 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 8 -- Less than a week after a spate of railway crashes, the nation's top rail safety official said the Northeast rail corridor is plagued by significant maintenance problems.
"On the Northeast Corridor alone, we're billions and billions behind just on {the} state of good repair," Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Sarah Feinberg said Thursday in an interview. "So that's not expanding capacity or speeding up service. That's just maintenance." According to a commission report from 2014, the Northeast Corridor had $21.1 billion in backlog repair needs.
Feinberg also spoke Thursday a meeting of the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, a working group of various rail stakeholders representing freight companies, passengers and labor.
The series of rail accidents in Pennsylvania and Illinois last week cast a shadow over the assembly. In all, three people were killed and at least 35 injured.
By Marisa Endicott, Medill News Service | April 8, 2016 at 3:25 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 8 -- Less than a week after a spate of railway crashes, the nation's top rail safety official said the Northeast rail corridor is plagued by significant maintenance problems.
"On the Northeast Corridor alone, we're billions and billions behind just on {the} state of good repair," Federal Railroad Administration Administrator Sarah Feinberg said Thursday in an interview. "So that's not expanding capacity or speeding up service. That's just maintenance." According to a commission report from 2014, the Northeast Corridor had $21.1 billion in backlog repair needs.
Feinberg also spoke Thursday a meeting of the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee, a working group of various rail stakeholders representing freight companies, passengers and labor.
The series of rail accidents in Pennsylvania and Illinois last week cast a shadow over the assembly. In all, three people were killed and at least 35 injured.
There was one in Illinois? I'll have to look into that.
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