{"id":39481,"date":"2016-11-28T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=39481"},"modified":"2016-11-28T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T18:40:07","slug":"nyc-commuter-rail-lags-behind-ptc-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/nyc-commuter-rail-lags-behind-ptc-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC commuter rail lags behind in PTC technology","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/feds-railroads-slow-make-progress-train-technology-43821373\">ABCNews.go.com<\/a> reported that federal regulators are concerned about the lack of progress from NYC commuter rail in implementing potentially lifesaving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fra.dot.gov\/ptc\">Positive Train Control (PTC) technology.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;The nation&#8217;s three busiest commuter railroads \u2014 which together serve nearly 1 million riders in the New York City area each day \u2014 continue to lag behind their smaller West Coast counterparts in installing sophisticated train-control technology that&#8217;s seen as an antidote to crashes involving speeding and other human factors&#8230;&#8221; Read the complete article <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/feds-railroads-slow-make-progress-train-technology-43821373\">here.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABCNews.go.com reported that federal regulators are concerned about the lack of progress from NYC commuter rail in implementing potentially lifesaving Positive Train Control (PTC) technology.\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;The nation&#8217;s three busiest commuter railroads \u2014 which together serve nearly 1 million riders in the New York City area each day \u2014 continue to lag behind their smaller West Coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,31,45,33,12,9,200,18,1,25,119],"tags":[1645,3440,175,199,3482,278],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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