December 18, 2020 NJT PTC Arrives JIT Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announces that NJ Transit has completed all the requirements for the installation, testing, and training of Positive Train Control at the Meadows Maintenance Complex in Kearny, N.J., Dec. 18, 2020. In New Jersey Transit’s epic struggle with implementing Positive Train Control by the Dec. 31, 2020 federal deadline, the agency came in under the wire(s), literally. On Dec. 17, less than two weeks before the New Year’s Eve “drop dead” (well, Federal Railroad Administration fines, actually) date, the agency, represented by President and CEO Kevin Corbett, joined by supplier Alstom, principal system integrator Parsons Corp., Federal Railroad Administrator Ron Batory and other FRA officials such as Staff Director – PTC/Signal and Train Control Carolyn Hayward-Williams, Amtrak and NJDOT officials, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and numerous members of the state’s political delegation, announced that the deadline had been met, as FRA conditionally approved NJT’s ASES (Advanced Speed Enforcement System) II where it is deployed on NJT lines. FRA granted extensions for certain aspects involving tenant Class II and III freight railroads.