Page 34 - Train Control News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Happen. >> let's go to positive train control. this is the invention, this is the safety mechanism that would allow the train to automate itself so that it could never be going 80 miles an hour around a 30-mile-per-hour curve. how is it possible that this is not in widespread use in most trains across the country? >> so, this is an incredible disappointment when it comes to safety because the ntsb has recommended technology like positive train control since the 1970s. and it was on their most wanted list back in 1990. so, this technology is not new technology. it just hasn't been implemented. ...

Enforced the signals. now they didn't have enforcement of speed controls or work zones. but -- and then on the amtrak, on the northeast corridor, they basically -- they have had probably the most advanced signal system in the u.s., certainly, and canada. and they were installing positive train control even when i was there. we were starting to put it in on certain stretches of track. where we -- we always had cab signals, we always had signal enforcement. but we were putting in the positive train control for work zones and speed restrictions back -- and i was at amtrak -- i left there in '05. ...

Remove this and get this back open. they have to make sure there's no damage on the road below before they can open the highway. >> i want to bring in retired railroad engineer robert being who was there waiting for the train. i understand we have a delay in our connection. let me start with the idea of the positive train control that blake was just talking about. explain for us how that works. and whether there's any doubt in your mind if positive train control would have been on this that this accident would have happened? >> that is exactly correct. this was mandated by congress some years ...

We're being told by transportation officials that they should reopen this by friday, neil. >> neil: thanks very much, dan. why was the conductor, the engineer going in excess of 80 miles an hour on a bend in the tracks? oliver mcgee is a former assistant secretary for president bill clinton. very good to have you, secretary. what do you make of that? >> well, i think this is an issue about speed. positive train control wasn't necessarily in place and other technologies necessary to control the speed as the train approached the 30 miles per hour curve but at 50 miles per hour over speed. positi...

Fixing the infrastructure in this country? infrastructure week, was back in june. somebody built a wall between him and his own plan? the fact is, we don't know any more about what's in his infrastructure plan as we know what's in his tax return. i have to say one other thing, as i listen to positive train control. in the bronx, 2013. there was a deadly accident coming out of philly in 2015. and as soon as these things happen, we start talking about technology and the infrastructure. he couldn't wait to get a tweet out yesterday. and -- but every time somebody goes up and shoots up a school in...