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NJ Transit launches mobile app for Access Link. NJ Transit After months of teeth-gnashing and worry over whether NJ Transit would meet the Dec. 31, 2020 deadline of PTC implementation, Parsons announced today that the deadline has been met, with less than two weeks to spare. Parsons Corporation announced today that NJ Transit (NJT) has completed the final deployment of its Positive Train Control (PTC) system; an advanced, technological capability that increases the safety of rail transit and pr...

With 3 weeks left, will NJ Transit make critical federal deadline? Updated Dec 10, 2020; Tick tock. There are 21 days and counting. Those aren’t the shopping days until Christmas, it’s the time left for NJ Transit to meet a Dec. 31 deadline to have a federally-mandated safety system called Positive Train Control running and approved. The stakes are high - there are no more extensions and if they blow it, trains will either stop running on Jan. 1 or the railroad will be fined $27,000 a day ...

What they have o to say about the whole thing, its quite investigative. it tazkes a long time it put it together. so six months is not unusual. >> not unusual. rick whitley, good of you to join us. thank you for your insights. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> whitley joining us, thank you, again former derailment investigator for conrail in atlanta. we want to let you know that funeral services in hue let, new york, were held for a train crash victim justin dempster. he was 20 years old. his m...

Youve been listening to all of this unfold what are you seeing what do you know? >> its an incredible scene out here were on the 2200 block of east butler street right next to the conrail frankford junction yard the sign says safety is our first priority. its an incredible scene of police and firefighters an army of both im watching right now, a couple firefighters drag a gurney up to the area where the crash has no doubt occurred. i spoke by phone a couple minutes ago, with former bucks county ...

Here. gary b., i know harry reid was talking about you, right? you want to pay more taxes. >> well, i might dissent on that one as you well know. he was talking about everybody. and heres the problem. and this is why its going to be so hard to shrink government. harry reid, he might be a nice guy, but he operates like a vast majority of congress, vast majority of the obama administration, under this cloud of hubris where they honestly think deep down theyre smarter than the rest of us. they thin...

And theyll review following a 2009, 16-car derailment and the conductor has been with conrail since 2008 and worked the accident route previously, but was his first week back on it. the n.t.s.b. say they winter to get their investigators to wait for the coast guard have crews to pump out the hazardous materials which should be beginning right now. >> and theres vinyl chloride containers and we still need to get those contains and potential for releases in the future even after we take care of th...

Including vinyl chloride, a sweet smelling chemical that causes headaches and crowdiness. >> the idea is to be cautious. the next movement that will cause concern is when conrail decides how to right the cars and pull them out of the water. there is a continued concern about the creek bed itself and how the tide moves. when you see these, the way the cars are wedged. if there were an abrupt movement there could be a compromise of an additional car. >> big news from capitol hill on the issue of i...

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